Polarizing Polar: An Exploitation Film For the Modern Viewer
In the shadow of towering film production companies lived dozens of grindhouses, genres, and low-budget films deemed too “unclean” for the modern film audience.

In this performance of Pariah by August Strindberg Thorsten Flinck plays both characters in a half-black, half-white outfit, turning to face the camera with the side currently speaking.
In the shadow of towering film production companies lived dozens of grindhouses, genres, and low-budget films deemed too “unclean” for the modern film audience.
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I understand that this would have been consistent with the language used by that generation, due to its role in the medical profession, however as someone who has family members with Down Syndrome I took it very personally.
One of the reasons that people with albinism have a difficult time being seen and represented in media is probably because there is a small percentage of them.