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African-American actresses and actors are more common on the big screen, but they are still scarce in bigger blockbuster movies. Reasons for this may be that "with the stakes high, many studio executives worry that films that focus on African-American themes risk being too narrow in their appeal to justify the investment.
In the early days of cinema, African-American roles were scarce and often filled with stereotypes. Pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, one of the first significant African-American filmmakers, countered these narratives with films like The Homesteader (1919) and Body and Soul (1925), which were part of the "race film" genre and tackled issues such as racial violence, economic oppression, and ...
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
The up-and-coming African-American actor voiced young Simba in the live-action “The Lion King” (2019) and even lent his voice to a track on co-star Childish Gambino’s album “Awaken, My ...
The movie expertly tackles white privilege, the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality and conflicts within the Black community. Watch on Prime Video 25.
The movie marked a breakthrough for Blacks in Hollywood who until then had little hope of ever seeing their names crawl up the screen during the closing credits for anything other than a ...
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 ...
Dolemite Is My Name. Eddie Murphy made his glorious return to R-rated comedy with this biopic on Rudy Ray Moore, the multi-hyphenate comedian who created the kung-fu fighting pimp Dolemite.