Author Claire White

Claire White

Claire White is a writer/bookseller based in Melbourne, Australia. With a specialisation in the depiction of youth and girlhood on screen, Claire has been published widely in print and online, and recently completed an honours thesis in screen studies at The University of Melbourne. She is a columnist for Junkee and a founding member of online film publication Rough Cut.

The kids are not alright: Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)

April 2020

CTEQ Annotations on Film

“Children are always pretending,” Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) consoles her friend Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore) after the latter’s daughter, Sarah Jane (Karin Dicker), runs off crying, insisting she is white de...