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To stay quiet just isn't an option -- "I can't not speak up," she said -- but she's well aware that other Hollywood figures keep mum about their politics. "I think they're afraid," she said.
The perspectives, or perhaps lack thereof, throughout Hollywood of black representation can be linked back to colonialism and post-colonial perspectives within cinema. [ citation needed ] Colonialism and slave culture imposed an awareness of privilege and ascendency to “lesser breeds without the law”, [ 14 ] to the point that a stigmatism ...
African-American leftism refers to left-wing political currents that have developed among various African-American communities in the United States. [1] These currents are active around social issues, and often call for an African-American led movement that aims at bringing about some form of socialism between the African-American community and ...
In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...
"Dear White People" writer and director Justin Simien discusses his MGM+ docuseries that explores the history of Black cinema and the obstacles it has faced from the silent era to present.
“Hollywood” begins with a clear divide of power between the aspiring actors and writers, such as that young black woman Camille (Laura Harrier), who has been relegated to playing maids but ...
Narrated by African-American filmmaker Billy Woodberry, the essay (originated by Andersen in 1985 before being expanded in book form by Bruch) is a revisionist history of the left-leaning filmmakers that were responsible for Hollywood's portraits of the social issues of the 20th Century drawing from 53 features. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Kennedy Mitchum is a modern-day agent of change. Thanks to the relatively unknown young black woman, racism has a new definition in the dictionary. The Florissant, Mo., native took matters into ...