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4 days ago · In the 1970s, a new wave of cinema emerged with the rise of blaxploitation films, which sought to celebrate black culture and empower black audiences through stories centered on black protagonists. Films like “Shaft,” “Super Fly,” and “Foxy Brown” featured black characters in leading roles, challenging traditional Hollywood ...
3 days ago · African American cinema is loosely classified as films made by, for, or about Black Americans. [1] Historically, African American films have been made with African-American casts and marketed to African-American audiences. [1] The production team and director were sometimes also African American. [2]
3 days ago · denzel washington. lethal weapon. danny glover. BlacKkKlansman. john david washington. Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley from Beverly Hills Cop is just one of many great Black detectives from pop culture.
5 days ago · While there has always been the hope of creating national cinemas, even the very notion of African cinema(s) in the plural has been pan-African since its early history. And women have taken part in the formation of an African cinema infrastructure from the beginning.
4 days ago · The dreamer. As Africa’s first filmmakers made their unique steps in Africanizing cinema, few were as bold as Djibril Diop Mambéty who employed cinema to service his dreams. Still from "Touki Bouki." In the recent publication of the decennial Sight & Sound Top 250 Greatest Films of All Time list, two African films were placed within the top 100.
1 day ago · In his article “African American Muslims in Film,” Bill Chambers lists a handful of films produced since the mid-20th century: Hate That Hate Produced (1959), Roots (1977), Malcolm X (1992), and Ali (2001). 58 None of these films is written, directed, and produced by Black Muslims. However, they are significant because they depict Black ...
5 days ago · In 1971, Melvin Van Peebles, an independent filmmaker far ahead of his time, released a mind-blowing piece of avant-garde cinema — Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. It broke all the rules, inventing its own grammar and proclaiming its emancipation from cinematic conventions.
