West Side Story: innovative or cliché?
- Author
- Melanie Hill, Valerie Francis
- Published
- Wed 04 May 2022
- Episode Link
- https://storynerd.simplecast.com/episodes/west-side-story-GPtC_gzB
West Side Story (2021) has been lauded for its depiction of race and racial tension, but how has it handled the love story? In his retelling of this age-old story, did Spielberg innovate the genre or did he perpetuate stereotypes?
