Hollywood In Color

This is episode 2 of Sonic Cinema: a series looking at a few starring history’s most iconic musicians. Today — The Making of The Bodyguard. All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode: Whitney directed by Kevin Macdonald (documentary) Whitney: "Can I Be Me?" directed by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal (documentary) Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954 by Alex Lubin (book) Interracial Romance as a Staged Spectacle in "Made in America," "Bringing Down the House" and "Guess Who" by Helene Charlery (article) Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (Chapter 8: Music, Video, Cinema: Singers and Movie Stars) by Yvonne Tasker Whitney Houston 1963-2012 by Robin Roberts (article) Nationality, Race, and Gender on the American Pop Charts: What happened in the '90s? by Alan Wells (article) Whitney is Every Woman: Cultural Politics and the Pop Star by Marla Shelton (article)