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In film, Afrofuturism is the incorporation of black people's history and culture in science fiction film and related genres. The Guardian ' s Ashley Clark said the term Afrofuturism has "an amorphous nature" but that Afrofuturist films are "united by one key theme: the centering of the international black experience in alternate and imagined realities, whether fiction or documentary; past or ...
Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology. It addresses themes and concerns of the African diaspora through technoculture and speculative fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared interest in envisioning black futures that stem from Afro-diasporic ...
Films which feature black history and culture in a futuristic or science fiction setting. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. B.
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Nnedi Okorafor, author credited for coining the word "Africanfuturism". In 2019 and 2020, African writers began to reject the term Afrofuturism because of the differences between both genres with Africanfuturism focusing more on African point of view, culture, themes and history as opposed to Afrofuturism which covers African diaspora history, culture and themes. [7]
Afrofuturist films (1 C, 19 P) Afrofuturists (1 C, 25 P) B. ... Pages in category "Afrofuturism" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Pumzi (transl. Breath) is a Kenyan science-fiction short film written and directed by Wanuri Kahiu. It was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The project was funded with grants from the Changamoto arts fund, as well as from the Goethe Institut and Focus Features ' Africa ...
Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900–1942. Oxford University Press. ASIN B019NE3UPK. Reid, Mark A. (1993). Redefining Black Film. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07902-1. Yearwood, Gladstone Lloyd (1999). Black Film as a Signifying Practice: Cinema, Narration and the African American Aesthetic Tradition. Africa ...