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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Diverting if Not Defiant
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'Although The Sapphires is diverting enough, by so completely obscuring the difficult questions of power, class and racial violence raised by the story with the redemptive narratives of individual love and the ‘transcendental’ power of music, the filmmakers do their material a disservice.'

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    y separately published work icon RealTime RealBlak no. 111 October-November 2012 Z1893516 2012 periodical issue 2012 pg. 30
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  • The Sapphires Keith Thompson Tony Briggs 2012 single work film/TV
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