The Cinema of Dolly Parton

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In this video I talk about the filmography of Dolly Parton: the kinds of roles she played, why she wanted to act, and how her persona fit in the landscape of 1980s American cinema.

More on Dolly:

Tressie McMillan Cottom's article: https://tressie.substack.com/p/the-dolly-moment?s=r
The United States of Dolly in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/19/the-united-states-of-dolly-parton
Is there anything we can agree on? Yes. Dolly Parton: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/21/arts/music/dolly-parton.html

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