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Will Smith , rapper, songwriter, actor and producer, is one of the biggest African-American stars of the past 25 years, attracting audiences and fees to match those of the highest-paid white stars. Given his earlier success in music and television, Smith’s film career, which took off in the mid-1990s, can be characterised as a form of media diversification that both plays on and, for some, plays safe with his established star image (cf. Palmer in The Velvet Light Trap 67:28–40, 2011: 28).
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O’Brien, D. (2017). Saving the World for White Folks? Will Smith Racialises Science Fiction as Black Man and Man in Black. In: Black Masculinity on Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59323-8_9
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