for you, miss?
Davies (1995), who I referenced repeatedly yesterday , tells us that Groundhog Day “ignor[es] considerations of race and gender politics” (p. 215). I’ve dealt several times with gender-related issues in the film. It’s finally time to confront issues of race as the film presents them to us. Davies also tells us, incorrectly, “The only non-white in the film (and, apparently, in the whole of Punxsutawney), is the stereotypical black barman who serves in the town’s premier hotel” (p. 226-7). To prove him wrong, have a look at the following (in no particular order but the order I just found them in my images folder—and the barman who I like to call “God” is marked with a red 3 (in case you can’t tell he’s behind a bar)): Davies suggests that “problems with white masculinity are resolved” in Groundhog Day “in reference to a patriarchal and racially pure notion of the past” (p. 227). While even I have recently called the film Capraesque, I’m not sure that bit about “the pas...