American films

African American women have been faced with severe discrimination and challenges when it comes to getting favorable roles on television shows and movies. In 2013, African Americans played in only 13 percent of roles in film (Crigger and Santhanam, 1). Women are fighting for representation on television and in movies every day, and it is rare to see an African American woman with a role that is not considered offensive. Men do not have a problem getting favorable roles for any type of film.…

The birth of a nation by D. W. Griffith is the longest film till date sitting at almost three hours in length; film scholars also agree that it is plausibly the single most important and key film of all time in American movie history. This is because it contains many cinematic innovations, refinements, technical effects and artistic advancement and all these contribute to creating the ideal theme and message of the director. To begin with, Camera angles are dire in other to evoke the directors…

In this film, American Beauty, the director use red color in this film. The red tells us not only the peace of family but also it says new way of life. Actually, in this film, Burnham is common father and husband in family. However, He often felt much affronted at having his presence disregarded in house or work place. As this situation is repeated, he is suffering a mid-life crisis. After he met Angela who is his daughter’s best friend, his life is change. He kisses Lester Burnham shedding…

According to the Native American historian Ward Churchill, who analyzed Native Americans in film around the 1930s, there were three typical patterns in which Native Americans were depicted in the era preceding WWII. Churchill contended that the three themes consistently implied that Native Americans are primitive beings, that they lack significant history, and that all Native Americans were the same. Although these stereotypes were common for Native Americans in the 1930s, these patterns were…

regiment for the African Americans in the Civil War. I really enjoyed the movie because it was interesting to see if the African Americans would be treated differently if they fought for the country. In some places, like Kansas, they were used for rioting the towns. However, General Robert Shaw treated them with more respect and more like soldiers. He stood up for them when they had no shoes and cared for them even though they were African American. The purpose for the African Americans to fight…

“Stereotyped images of African Americans appear in some of the earliest films ever made” (78). “Film historian Donald Bogle has identified five stereotypes of African Americans that repeatedly appear in classical Hollywood cinema” (79). One example of stereotypes and internalized racism is Precious. This film follows the life of Claireece Precious Jones, a young woman living in Harlem in 1897. She lives a very tough life, filled with sexual and mental abuse from both her mother and father, as…

African American Films and Directors in the 1990s Many of the African-American films of the 1980s depicted the community as violent and unsafe. Hollywood was not interested in filming the success stories of thousands of young blacks. And rather than dealing the realities of street life and black neighborhoods, many films portrayed the communities as gang-ridden and violent-- with frequent drive-by shootings and alternating chase sequences. This was because these over-the-top scenes resonated…

many tribulations encountered by African Americans in the 1900’s. In this movie we follow the character Cecil, as he moves through life and goes through many different experiences. A central topic discussed in the movie is the on-going segregation between the whites and the blacks. This film also entails many topics previously discussed through the year including segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, and other different ways of discrimination towards African Americans. Before moving onto these main…

within the American society, even using a tool nearly every american understands: mathematics. The movie could be used to explain the troubles of many African Americans during the pre-Civil Rights Movement, but it could also be used to shows the simple ways that they could change their place within society. Historians could use this movie as a place to look for African American influence on a national project, which the United State eventually won. Further research on African Americans help with…

In the film American History X directed by Tony Kaye, he tell the story of morden day narzi’s (Neo Narzi). Tony uses many film techniques to portray the life of Derek Vinyard and his brother Danny Vinyard. In this movie Derek goes to prison and the experience changed his view on black people. The purpose of the first scene was to show how dark and twisted Derek’s past was. For example the kurb stomp scene, where Derek brutally murders a black man. The purpose of the second scene was to show how…