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Frank’s Place, Gender, and New Orleans: Using Folklore to Create Televisual Place
Ist Teil von
Journal of film and video, 2017-12, Vol.69 (4), p.28-42
Ort / Verlag
Englewood: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
EBSCOhost Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The critically acclaimed and awardwinning television show Frank's Place aired only twenty-two episodes in 1987-88, but despite its brief run, the series has had a strong impact on critics and the genre. The series' title character moves from the Northeast to New Orleans, a city that he struggles to understand and appreciate. As an outsider, the series' main character Frank Parrish enacts a paradigm of cultural education. Born in New Orleans, he moved from the city at the age of two and has become a northerner, a professor specializing in Italian Renaissance art history at a university in Boston. Returning to the city of his birth, to claim the restaurant and property inherited from a father he never knew, Frank has to confront a city without his Volvo and his Yankee middle-class assumptions. Befriended by the restaurant staff and neighborhood patrons, especially its female ones, Frank learns to respect and understand the rhythms and beliefs of a working-class black culture. Implicitly and explicitly, the city of New Orleans challenges Frank's beliefs based on his life in Boston. Frank is continually schooled in the practices of New Orleans, a culture that embodies what Sharon Zukin describes as "the voice of the authentic city-a voice that spoke of origins rather than of new beginnings" (15). Though this tale is set decades before Hurricane Katrina, the series' affection for New Orleans presciently evokes the music and attitudes expressed in the aftermath of the diaspora, even including as the theme song Louis Armstrong's "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?," which also became an anthem for the city postKatrina.