Just for clarity's sake - many recent postings gave examples where actors played characters of a different race/ethnicity. Should the two cases not be distinguished? (1) films where two characters are of different race and have romances (or not), (2) films where a character, whatever its function, has one race, and its actor/actress another? Although both cases are telling about attitudes towards race etc., they are so in quite different ways. Birgit Kellner Institute for Indian Philosophy University of Hiroshima ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]