热爱电影的雪莉爱做白日梦。这阵子，她满脑子都是「西瓜女」─早期美国电影里一名不见经传的黑人女演员。她在一家租售录影带的小店工作，进进出出的都是同道中人─女同志。某天，一名风情万种的白人女子闯进了她的生命，从此，平淡的生活变成了惊险刺激的游乐场过山车。Che...Notes 1. However, while the film breaks with convention in highlighting an interracial lesbian romance, its ultimate commentary on such relationships--especially between African-American and white women--is that they are unlikely to overcome the difficulties related to social dynamics that often plague such relationships. Class differences, including Diana's racist fetishization of the "Other," come between Cheryl and Diana in the end, and the film encourages us to speculate that racist social norms of the mid-century came between Fae Richards and Martha Page. 2. Scenes such as this only "work" in this film because they are exaggeratedly humorous and because they also ring true as well. It is likely that viewers are familiar with white women who fetishize people of color, and who date them in the spirit of this fetishization. 3. Here Walker invokes a phrase used throughout the film, "the family," slang for "homosexual," or, more specifically, "lesbian." In this passage, the character of June Walker makes it clear that "family" for her includes race and is limited to lesbians who are also women of color. Works Cited Bobo, Jacqueline. Black Women as Cultural Readers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Dash, Julie, and bell hooks. "Dialogue Between bell hooks and Julie Dash." Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film. New York: The New Press, 1992. 27-67. Desert Hearts. Dir. Donna Deitch. Samuel Goldwyn, 1985. Dolan, Jill. "'Lesbian' Subjectivity in Realism: Dragging at the Margins of Structure and Ideology." Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre. Ed. Sue-Ellen Case. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. 40-53. Go Fish. Dir. Rose Troche. Samuel Goldwyn, 1994. Gomez, Jewelle. "A Cultural Legacy Denied and Discovered: Black Lesbians in Fiction by Women." Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Ed. Barbara Smith. New York: Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983. 110-23. Gone with the Wind. Dir. Victor Fleming. MGM, 1939. Jackson, Phyllis J., and Darrell Moore. "Fictional Seductions." (Film Review.) GLQ 4.3 (1998): 499-508. Juhasz, Alexandra. AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Jungle Fever. Dir. Spike Lee. Universal Pictures, 1991. Kaplan, E. Ann. Women & Film: Both Sides of the Camera. New York: Routledge, 1983. McAlister, Linda Lopez. "The Watermelon Woman." (28 June 1997). http://www.inform.umd.edu.EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/FilmReviews/watermelon. 1 February 1999. Turoff, Randy. "Watermelon Woman." http://www.planetout.com/pno/popcornq/db/getfilm.html?2117&shop. 1 February 1999. The Watermelon Woman (1996). The Internet Movie Database--http://us.imdb.com/Title?Watennelon+Woman,+The+(l996) 1 February 1999. When Night Is Falling. Dir. Patricia Rozema. Crucial Pictures, 1995.