While this slideshow is not just going to focus on that movie, it is going to point out the trope heavily used throughout the film. The White savior trope. If you’re unaware, it’s a plot ...

As with most popular debuts that delve heavily into cultures foreign to our own, some critics pointed to the white savior trope, drawing lines between Shogun and Dances with Wolves, The Last ...

as portrayed in the fictionalization of their lives in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” has renewed conversations about a common film trope: the white savior. When “The Blind Side” hit ...

While "The Blind Side" performed well at the box office, the "white savior" trope and the many negative racial stereotypes associated with the film put a bad taste in many people's mouths ...

The renewed focus on the picture, directed by John Lee Hancock, has vindicated those who blasted it at the time of its release as a glaring example of the “white savior” trope. In this ...

"‘Green Book’ was an example of how these tropes are repeated because they resonate culturally." While Braxton noted that Hollywood "may never decide to give up the White savior once and for ...

We've seen the white savior trope, in which a white hero swoops in to save people of color from their misfortunes. But you've probably never seen it written like it is in the new Dark Horse comic ...

Discerning critics also saw the movie, based on a best-selling book by Berkeley author Michael Lewis, as another Hollywood project that uses “White savior” tropes. Now, critics of the movie ...

The book and movie about former NFL lineman Michael Oher lean into the white-savior trope. They were terrible long before the allegations that they were based on lies. Michael Oher stands with ...

Ten years ago, the writer Teju Cole coined the term White Savior Industrial Complex ... appears to have all the hallmarks of the white-savior trope. Yet the more I delved into Baskerville ...