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* PositiveDiscrimination: Cultural critic Camille Page goes on a long but fast-paced rant about how the Mammy and watermelon stereotypes are actually empowering for Black people... by comparing them to perceptions of Italians. One gets the sense Dunye let her go on at length just to underscore how every following sentence made her comparison even more inane.
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Cheryl is surprised to learn that Tamara stole a customer's account to rent ''Big Bald Black Cocks'' despite being a lesbian, to which Tamara admits she's just a little curious.
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Cheryl is surprised to learn that Tamara stole a customer's account to rent ''Big Bald ''Bald Black Cocks'' Ballbusters'' despite being a lesbian, to which Tamara admits she's just a little curious.
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[[https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/the-watermelon-woman It is available to watch]] on [[Creator/TheCriterionCollection The Criterion Channel]].
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* CastingGag: In additional to Cheryl Dunye herself, much of the cast includes real-life LGBT activists and writers including Cheryl Clarke, Creator/GuinevereTurner, Sarah Schulman, Brian Freeman, V.S. Brodie, David Rakoff, among others.
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* ButchLesbian: Cheryl and Tamara have this look.
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Diana turns out to [[spoiler:have dated three Black men before Cheryl, which sets off Dunye's alarms that her date views her as a fetish.]]
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* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Diana turns out to [[spoiler:have dated three Black men before Cheryl, which sets off Dunye's alarms that her date views her as a fetish. Tamara suspected this beforehand.]]
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It is the first known feature length film to be directed by a Black lesbian. Its post-production budget was financed by the United States National Endowment for the Arts, which set off [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watermelon_Woman#Criticism_of_NEA_funding a flurry of controversy]] over its perceived explicit material, despite all of its content falling comfortably within the usual standards for an R rating. As a result, the NEA since has only been permitted to fund specific pre-approved projects.
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It is the first known feature length film to be directed by a Black lesbian. Its post-production budget was financed by the United States National Endowment for the Arts, which set off [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watermelon_Woman#Criticism_of_NEA_funding a flurry of controversy]] over its perceived explicit material, despite all of its content falling comfortably within the usual standards for an R rating. As a result, Since then, the NEA since has only been permitted to fund specific pre-approved projects.
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It is the first known feature length film to be directed by a Black lesbian. Its post-production budget was financed by the United States National Endowment for the Arts, which set off [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watermelon_Woman#Criticism_of_NEA_funding a flurry of controversy]] over its perceived explicit material (despite all of its content falling comfortably within the usual standards for an R rating.) As a result, the NEA since has only been permitted to fund specific pre-approved projects.
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It is the first known feature length film to be directed by a Black lesbian. Its post-production budget was financed by the United States National Endowment for the Arts, which set off [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watermelon_Woman#Criticism_of_NEA_funding a flurry of controversy]] over its perceived explicit material (despite material, despite all of its content falling comfortably within the usual standards for an R rating.) rating. As a result, the NEA since has only been permitted to fund specific pre-approved projects.
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Cheryl is surprised to learn that Tamara used a false account to rent ''Big Bald Black Cocks'' despite being a lesbian, to which Tamara admits she's just a little curious.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Diana doesn't seem to mind being made to rent a porn film fixated on Black dicks, [[spoiler:which makes sense with the reveal that she exclusively dated Black men in the past.]]
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* FunWithAcronyms: Cheryl finds more information about lesbian history at the Center for Lesbian Information Technology.
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* FunWithAcronyms: Cheryl finds more information about records of lesbian history at the Center for Lesbian Information Technology.
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It is the first known feature length film to be directed by a Black lesbian. Its post-production budget was financed by the United States National Endowment for the Arts, which set off [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watermelon_Woman#Criticism_of_NEA_funding a flurry of controversy]] over its perceived explicit material (despite all of its content falling comfortably within the usual standards for an R rating.) As a result, the NEA since has only been permitted to fund specific pre-approved projects.
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[[https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/the-watermelon-woman It is available to watch]] on [[Creator/TheCriterionCollection The Criterion Channel]].
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* PositiveDiscrimination: Cultural critic Camille Page goes on a long but fast-paced rant about how TheMammy and watermelon stereotypes are actually empowering for Black people... by comparing them to perceptions of Italians. One gets the sense Dunye let her go on at length just to underscore how every following sentence made her comparison even more inane.
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''The Watermelon Woman'' is a 1996 film directed by Cheryl Dunye. It centers on the director [[AsHimself As Herself]] investigating the life of a mysterious Black actress from the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, credited only as "the Watermelon Woman". Intercut with her quest are scenes dramatizing Dunye's own life working at a video store, hanging out with friends, awkward jobs filming events for hire, and dating life.
It is the first known feature length film to be directed by a Black lesbian.
!!''The Watermelon Woman'' contains examples of:
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The last shot of the film before the credits reveals the truth. [[spoiler:Fae Richards wasn't real and neither were the films she was depicted in.]]
* BittersweetEnding: Cheryl and [[spoiler:Fae's]] fates are contrasted at the end. [[spoiler:Fae ended up leaving Hollywood and hopes of fame to retire in obscurity, but lived the rest of her life surrounded by family and loved ones. Inversely, Cheryl's pursuit of this project to hit it big has resulted in strained relationships with her best friend and now-former girlfriend.]]
* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Cheryl is surprised to learn that Tamara used a false account to rent ''Big Bald Black Cocks'' despite being a lesbian, to which Tamara admits she's just a little curious.
* FunWithAcronyms: Cheryl finds more information about lesbian history at the Center for Lesbian Information Technology.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: One of Cheryl's dates at the local karaoke turns out to be this.
* NoEnding: The film abruptly halts shortly after Cheryl's last lead is unable to aid with the investigation, and several key events like [[spoiler:the details of Fae's post-Hollywood life]] or [[spoiler:Cheryl breaking up with Diana]] are left undepicted.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Cultural critic Camille Page goes on a long but fast-paced rant about how TheMammy and watermelon stereotypes are actually empowering for Black people... by comparing them to perceptions of Italians. One gets the sense Dunye let her go on at length just to underscore how every following sentence made her comparison even more inane.
* [[invoked]]TookTheBadFilmSeriously: This was the only real option for Black actors in the Golden Age who had to act in racist roles, and part of what perks Cheryl's interest in the Watermelon Woman as she passionately acts out a part that makes her a {{Mammy}} to a white SouthernBelle.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Diana turns out to [[spoiler:have dated three Black men before Cheryl, which sets off Dunye's alarms that her date views her as a fetish.]]
It is the first known feature length film to be directed by a Black lesbian.
!!''The Watermelon Woman'' contains examples of:
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The last shot of the film before the credits reveals the truth. [[spoiler:Fae Richards wasn't real and neither were the films she was depicted in.]]
* BittersweetEnding: Cheryl and [[spoiler:Fae's]] fates are contrasted at the end. [[spoiler:Fae ended up leaving Hollywood and hopes of fame to retire in obscurity, but lived the rest of her life surrounded by family and loved ones. Inversely, Cheryl's pursuit of this project to hit it big has resulted in strained relationships with her best friend and now-former girlfriend.]]
* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Cheryl is surprised to learn that Tamara used a false account to rent ''Big Bald Black Cocks'' despite being a lesbian, to which Tamara admits she's just a little curious.
* FunWithAcronyms: Cheryl finds more information about lesbian history at the Center for Lesbian Information Technology.
* HollywoodToneDeaf: One of Cheryl's dates at the local karaoke turns out to be this.
* NoEnding: The film abruptly halts shortly after Cheryl's last lead is unable to aid with the investigation, and several key events like [[spoiler:the details of Fae's post-Hollywood life]] or [[spoiler:Cheryl breaking up with Diana]] are left undepicted.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Cultural critic Camille Page goes on a long but fast-paced rant about how TheMammy and watermelon stereotypes are actually empowering for Black people... by comparing them to perceptions of Italians. One gets the sense Dunye let her go on at length just to underscore how every following sentence made her comparison even more inane.
* [[invoked]]TookTheBadFilmSeriously: This was the only real option for Black actors in the Golden Age who had to act in racist roles, and part of what perks Cheryl's interest in the Watermelon Woman as she passionately acts out a part that makes her a {{Mammy}} to a white SouthernBelle.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Diana turns out to [[spoiler:have dated three Black men before Cheryl, which sets off Dunye's alarms that her date views her as a fetish.]]
