Disney’s original 1937 animated Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs starts off ... It’s an attempt at the “Narrator All Along” trope that just ends up confusing the movie’s tone even more.

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 ...

In Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024), however, science fiction becomes a genre to subvert colonial and patriarchal narratives of the white, masculine savior. Elements of a white savior ...

Unpacking that was what led us to such huge, interesting and important topics: the legacy of colonialism and Uganda, harmful white savior narratives that often shaped the mindsets of missionaries ...

When the picture appears on No White Saviors’ Instagram feed at the end of Savior Complex’s second episode, it does so under a caption reading “Angel of Death.” For much of its first two ...

The afterlives of ‘The Blind Side’ and ‘The Help,’ as well as the development of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ point to the tenacity of a timeworn Hollywood trope. Aug. 25, 2023 ...

"‘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 ...

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 ...

Now we have Oher's fight, which many will see as a revival of a criticism the movie has received as a classic example of the "white savior" narrative, a cinematic trope in which a whiter central ...

Now we have Oher’s fight, which many will see as a revival of a criticism the movie has received as a classic example of the “white savior” narrative, a cinematic trope in which a whiter ...

Now we have Oher’s fight, which many will see as a revival of a criticism the movie has received as a classic example of the “white savior” narrative, a cinematic trope in which a whiter ...

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 ...