Fast Decade To Black Film Analysis

Film makers continue to misrepresent African-Americans in movies depicting them as characters, such as the brash women, domestic workers, thugs, and the “magical negro”. The brash African American women is depicted as being rude and having an attitude towards people in her immediate surroundings. The brash women are depicted as being loud mouth and not caring for what other people might think of her. These images are bad for people who do not live near an African-American community could stereotype and assume that all African American women act with a brash personality. Surprisingly, many of the films that include the brash stereotype are found in African American filmmaker Tyler Perry’s movies, such as Madeas Family Reunion. In addition, African-American women have been portrayed as …show more content…
As soon as Forrest made a fortune with the shrimp business, he gave a share to the Bubba’s mom. Soon afterwards in a scene there is a White American working for Bubba’s mom. In the book, Slow Fade to Black, by Thomas Cripps, Cripps explains how African Americans were negatively portrayed by stereotypes rather than portraying the successes of many African-Americans in the northern part of the United States. “Especially for blacks who were unrepresented in the seats of power, this meant continuing grudging tolerance of a white man 's Negro on the screen, a tamed image having little to do with changing social reality…all the blacks who broke the old molds in Northern ghettos, were unseen on the nation 's screens” (Cripps) This explains how the cinema has negatively portrayed African-Americans in the past and continue to do so with old stereotypes. In addition, African-Americans have continued to be shown as ruthless gangsters from the ghettos of large cities. These thug stereotypes depict primarily African-American inner city youth as the gangsters who deal drugs and control the drug trade within their