Black-and-white films

whitewashing in Hollywood films has been around for a long time and it needs to come to a stop because it promotes fear and resistance to change in audiences,…

The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of the Revolution was such a revolutionary film because it dwells on the Black Panther Party and the film shows how revolutionary the movement was. The film is a recap of the titular organization of the short tumulus history of the Black Panthers. The film Vanguard is very straight forward to the point the legacy of the great panthers. Black Panthers were one of the most demonized organization in the US history of the white supremacist and corporate media. The film…

being depicted in films and television since the beginning of it’s time. The film challenged Hollywood’s portrayal of black identity; how it is stereotyped in real life and how it is fabricated on screen. It shows us a social commentary on how media works in fueling popular culture and the white man’s view of the black community. Though the days of blackface might seem like ancient history to Americans today, Spike Lee resurrects it to refresh our memories. In the beginning of the film we are…

An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Film, provides an important framework for comparing and contrasting the portrayal of African Americans. Although Bogle was mainly looking at the character types created for Africa American actors, I believe his five character types also reveal how white filmmakers and Micheaux thought similarly and differently about depicting black people. Therefore, this essay will focus on how each filmmaker viewed the Uncle Tom and the Black Buck for the sake of…

African Americans in the film industry is pretty different from what they were in the past. Compared to our society, the portrayals of African Americans in the past were negative. Since one of Hollywood’s main goals as time progressed was to make films that are more relatable, the films had to follow the specific trend that was going on in that time. Many films followed the lifestyles of individuals living in antebellum South. The only roles available for African Americans in film were roles…

Samantha White is portrayed as a multiracial, heterosexual female. Sam is the creator of the Dear White People radio show that she uses to call out various forms of racism and express her disgust of racial stereotypes. Although she is multiracial, Sam only refers to herself as being black while completely ignoring her white heritage. She openly expresses her blackness but is occasionally accused of overcompensating by her black friends because of this. One example of this is when Sam’s friend…

analyzation it is evident that instead Disney has produced distorted images of racism and segregation in their movies. I have selected the animated film, The Princess and the Frog (2005). In the film, Tiana represents The Other of African American’s in the 19th century. In The Princess and the Frog, Tiana is faced with issues of racism, privileged whites, and achieving status. These are all reoccurring problems that African American’s were faced with during slavery. The Princess and the Frog…

The portrayal of black women has evolved greatly over time. From Oliva Pope in Scandal to Annalise in How to Get Away with Murder, black women are on-screen professionals now more than ever. Although black women are seen dealing with issues in their stories’ plot, the great majority of these plots take a back seat to the subplot of romance. The success of black women in media is relentlessly measured by their love life. Regardless of the success of their financial, employment, or platonic…

documentary but a fiction depiction of the Black woman’s experience in a prison system. The movie covers these prisoners’ rebellion against the systematic structure in place that abuses and exploits the woman in the facility. The focus is on the plantation like work the women are forced to endure, rape and sexual abuse, and other harsh conditions. Hay (77) notes that Civil Brand is not your typical women-in-prison film because of the emotional intensity in the film. The climax of the story…

Hollywood’s great influence enables films to cause a positive or a negative impact on society. An example of this is D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation. Upon its release in 1915, the filmed created disputes due the way that it portrayed African Americans. The film caused race riots and uproars from African American communities who were enraged by their community’s portrayal. For the first time in film history, a motion picture was screened at the White House, where President Woodrow Wilson said,…