tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post415479190355046009..comments2024-02-26T11:04:22.115+13:00Comments on Reid's Reader – A Blog of Book Reviews and Comment.: Something ThoughtfulNicholas Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497366104216216952noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-37689170633620048242012-07-31T19:49:00.448+12:002012-07-31T19:49:00.448+12:00That particular film historian was, however, a com...That particular film historian was, however, a completely untrustworthy shyster!Nicholasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-44942462603209059712012-07-30T09:24:32.466+12:002012-07-30T09:24:32.466+12:00This puts me in mind of a certain historian of New...This puts me in mind of a certain historian of New Zealand films of the 1980s who wrote, "How 'true' to New Zealand are they?" and noted both that "organized religion has been downplayed in New Zealand films" and they "have predominantly rural and small-town settings" (pp. 23-4 of A Decade of New Zealand Film).JB Pigginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282440808752045816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-13526862901729027172012-07-18T19:25:08.525+12:002012-07-18T19:25:08.525+12:00I don't doubt that there no black characters i...I don't doubt that there no black characters in "The Andy Griffith Show" simply because Andy and the powers that be chose to shy away from controversy. If my memory is correct, some black characters may have been added to the later "Mayberry R. F. D.," which I've never followed.<br />I am not making excuses, but the show is situated in the mountainous, western part of North Carolina, where blacks would have been less numerous, though not nonexistent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com