Black-and-white films

Given Circumstances 1. Geographical location, including climate: “The Help” is a drama film released in 2011 focusing on racism, discrimination, and inequality that the African American maids faced. The story of the movie focuses on the relationship between two black maids with a white woman journalist in Jackson, Mississippi. The warm, bright, and sunny days in the movie give the climate condition of Jackson, Mississippi. 2. Date; year, season, time of day: The story focuses on how Jackson was…

Film not only gives audiences a chance to find the similar experience, but also gives a way to audiences to see how certain condition impacted the society. The films The Birth of a Nation and Within Our Gates both incorporate controversial issues during that time; lynching, rape, discrimination, violence, education, and exploitation. By applying the film as social and political force, Griffith's The Birth of a Nation proposes a controversial for the negative depiction of African Americans and…

all over the world and also plays a big part in our modern history. In the novel to ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the film ‘Remember The Titans’, the racism prevalently between black and white Americans is dealt with in a numerous amount of ways. The novel is not a true story but is based on life at the time whereas the film is based on real events that happened. Throughout both the film and the novel there were many similarities with how racism was dealt with including the two female narrators…

Experience Reflection: Black Girl in Suburbia “Too white to be black, too black to be white” (Lowery, 2014). This statement was repeated several times throughout the showing of Black Girl in Suburbia, a documentary portraying the experience of director, Melissa Lowery, growing up as a black girl in West Linn, Oregon. The documentary was shown as part of the We Can Listen series put on by the Old Church Concert Hall in Portland on September 12, 2017 from 7:00-9:30pm. The purpose of the film was…

Racism in Film Crash In the film Crash, racism is a major theme. Racism is the discrimination or abusive behavior towards members of another race. In this case, white people are racist towards the black people. In this society, white people have power over black people and black people cannot do anything about it. Some whites don't use their power towards blacks but clearly show that they dislike blacks. The film shows a few scenes that define racism and power.…

from his previous feature film, School Daze, a perceptive representation of middle class life and black identity while creating the draft of Do the Right Thing, originally titled as Heat…

is a Civil War film based on the history of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment. The movie focuses on one of the first black regiments in the Civil War, which must overcome an enormous amount of adversity during the war. The film was told through the eyes of the white regiment leader, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw a Boston born abolitionist. The regiment was commissioned in March of 1863 after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. The film shows the problems that blacks faced even…

Georgian Court University Remember the Titans is a film based on a true story about the integration of an all Black school into an all White school in the 1970’s in Alexandria, Virginia. When the school board decides to make an African American man head coach of the football team, tensions rise between the White students and the Black students, as well as the members of the community. There are many examples of cultural differences seen in this film that are still relatable to our world…

In Janes Gaines’s, White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory, Gaines wanted to show how a theory of the text and its spectator, based on the psychoanalytic concept of sexual difference, is unequipped to deal with a film which is about racial difference and sexuality. “The Diana Ross star vehicle Mahogany (directed by Berry Gordy, 1975) immediately suggests a psychoanalytic approach because the narrative is organized around the connections between voyeurism…

friends. Kate Tsang's, "So You've Grown Attached" is a touching take on when growing up and letting go become necessary but at the same time, bittersweet. The short film is about an imaginary friend, Ex, who is forced to consider retirement when his creator, Izzy, starts to grow up. Tsang uses live action, great animation, a black and white color scheme, and wonderfully matched…