Tarzan of the DVDs

Stanley Crouch at Slate reviews the Tarzan of the Apes DVD collection. He does a very good job of discussing the Johnny Weismuller films in popular culture without falling back on the "Aren't we so much more progressive these days" trope that is so wearisome, as shown by this even-handed assessment of natives and white men as portrayed in Tarzan movies:

With the exception of Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942), where we see civilized Nairobi Africans in colonial circumstances, the natives in the bush are mean and bloodthirsty, but no more lowdown than the ruthless white men who invade Tarzan's Eden in order to leave with ivory or gold.