Blues Ain't No Mockingbird | Themes

The central conflict in ‘‘Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird’’ is between the white filmmakers and Granny, who is offended by their presence and wants them to leave.

Race and Racism
The story’s conflict is really a conflict over race and representation: Granny believes that the filmmakers have no right, uninvited, to shoot footage of her, her family, and her home; the filmmakers, meanwhile, are attempting to use her life to make a political and social statement, sponsored by the state government, about the black rural poor. The filmmakers, then, want to see the...

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