Black-and-white films

For the second year in a row, not a single black actor received a nomination this year for the Academy Awards ceremony. Are white actors any better than black actors or is the Academy racist? What is keeping perfectly qualified black entertainers from getting any recognition? This deeply cut into the long going conversation about opportunities in entertainment for people of color and inequalities between white and black actors in the entertainment industry. Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, actor Will…

of times in American film. Just recently, a film called Get Out tackled the subjective of race in a creative thrilling and comedic way. The film revolved around a black man visiting his white girlfriend’s parents. This film is now up for many Academy Awards including Best Picture. Even more recently, a monumental black superhero film, Black Panther was released. Black Panther is the first black superhero movie, and is on its way to grossing 1 billion dollars worldwide. The film The Blind Side…

is a 1996 American drama film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film involves the rape of a young black girl named Tonya Hailey. The heartbroken black father Carl Lee avenges his daughter 's brutal rape by shooting the two dogmatic men responsible for the crime as they are on their way to trial. The film takes place in the fictional town of Canton Mississippi, a town where conflict between whites and black is a major problem. Schumacher utilises language throughout the film to convey the…

influenced by media portrayals of African Americans; yet, these popular representations of Black Americans and their culture often highlight dated stereotypical images. As a result, white Americans who have limited contact with Black people often project racist ideologies onto the bodies of African Americans upon finally making contact. Moreover, the normative -- white authored -- representations of Black people serve to reinforce…

Griffith was the first blockbuster film in American history. It was an amazing feat of cinema and nailed its place in history. However, while “The Birth of a Nation” boasts these achievements it is without question one of the most racist movies of all time. This movie not only show glorifies the Ku Klux Klan as heroes of America, but also shows the misrepresentation of black people and the role that black people will have in films. Looking back at the time the film was released there was still a…

four films serve our historic visualization of the past’s realities. What the four films share strongest are the representations of African Americans in the past, and what we can see as immoral today. The earliest of the four films Within Our Gates by Oscar Mischuax depicts a lot of these historical messages/representations that all four films share. The title says it all, it brings an inside perspective of what it would have been like as an African American in the 1920’s. During this race film…

ARGUMENT / THESIS Shaft (1971) is a film about the utilization of race as a source of power over all social constructions. The film utilizes race, performance, and the theme of opacity to convey this. Shaft, being a Blaxploitation film, allows common themes such as race to take on a whole different meaning. In other film race might simply just be a distinguishing trait to tell one character from another. But in Shaft, race equates power. METHOD / APPROACH TO THE FILM This paper will focus on…

Get Out is the horror film directed by comedian Jordan Peele, it follows main character Chris Washington as he joins his girlfriend Rose on a trip to meet her white liberal parents. What happens when Chris and Rose arrive is what made Get Out one of the most successful horror films of the year. Peele created a film that dealt with a black person’s navigation in White America, in my research of the discourse surrounding Get Out I found five articles and one thread of viewer comments on Tumblr.…

Schindler's List released on 15th December 1993 a film directed by the famous Steven Spielberg that tells the real-life story of Oscar Shindler. The film highlights the unwatchable series of events that took place in World War II. It is set in Krakow ghetto, Shindler's list is a film based on the life of Oscar Shindler who was a member of Nazi Party and German industrialist. It is a true story based on one remarkable man who outweighed Hitler and the Nazi to save as many Jews from the gas…

Notions, is a documentary about the racial stereo types that were portrayed of blacks in America. This film examines the characters created to depict blacks and the social impact it had on the world. The film reflects a tone of realizing the truth of the negative impacts these stereotypes. The people that are depicted in this film misrepresented as jolly souls who are satisfied with their condition of servitude. The film is being told through the eyes of scholars who grew up during an era…