Blaxploitation

The Learning Tree is among the most influential films directed by Gordon Parks. The film was produced and released in 1969 by Warner Bros-Seven Arts. The genre concentrates on the story of an African-American growing up in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Across the globe, racial discrimination is a challenge that prevents socialization and extensive interaction among different ethnic groups. During that particular time, racial discrimination was a major problem in most parts

Painter Chris Ofili is well known in his highly decorative style to playfully explore the notion of black cultural identity. British born to Nigerian parents artist Chris Ofili often makes work highlighting political conversations. In 1998 he won the Turner Prize, the painting No Woman, No Cry was one of the works included in exhibition which won him the prize. It was made while he was living and working in London, a time period of Ofili’s practice, beginning in 1996, in which he shifted from making

RACIAL TENDENCIES: BLACK SUPERHEROES VS WHITE SUPERHEROES Xavier Green Comparative World History: Gender December 11, 2016 History has showed society that even though having a white super hero is very much the norm for everybody growing up, but black super heroes aren 't given exposure to society. They are viewed as criminals for doing absolutely nothing to the unjust system. Now more recently African Americans having been targeted more than ever, and for a very long time African Americans

Comic book characters represent the best and worst parts of society as seen through the eyes of the writers. Heroes emanate what the writers perceive as the ideal human, someone attractive with a strong moral code and a high tolerance for pain. Villains represent what the writers perceive as problematic, people who are overly ambitious, immoral and represent the “other”, both in appearance and beliefs. These characterisations reflect the views of society’s majority, white men, essentially the creators

These representations led to Blaxploitation as a Genre, and according to bell hooks, “contemporary black men have been shaped by these representations”. Black Cinema challenges these representations by exploring the intersectionalities between race, class, gender, and sexuality. The concept

Black Dynamite Movie and its Camp aspects The Movie Black Dynamite, released in 2009, is an action comedy film and a parody of the 1970’s blaxploitation genre. The film is mainly about a character, named Black Dynamite, a former CIA agent, who spends the majority of his free time policing inner-city streets, and protecting prostitutes from their abusive pimps. When mysterious forces kill his brother, “Black Dynamite roars back into action, battling evildoers on an epic quest that takes him from the

In the 70’s comics sometimes mirrored Blaxploitation films from that era and created many Black-American characters who had similarities to the cultures depicted during the era such as Luke Cage. Spanish heroes and villains such as Bane debuted in the 90’s mirroring the influx of Latino-Americans

Paula J. Massood touches on this concept in “Out of the Ghetto into the Hood” when she writes “the focal point of many Blaxploitation films was an adult male, whereas hood films narrate the coming-of-age of a young male protagonist and the difficulties of such an undertaking in the dystopian environment of the inner city” (147). Both of these films display their understanding

B-MOVIES: FROM RAGS TO RICHES Hollywood today spends more money on movies than ever before, with an average budget of $140 million per movie. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’; the most expensive movie ever made; cost approximately $378.5 million and that was five years ago. This isn’t surprising since history is witness to a rising trend in money spent on movies, however, even after adjusting for inflation, their impact on the industry isn’t as large as their budgets. Over the years

This essay examines visual representations of Maori women within the photographic domain. I will examine and compare three examples of how Maori women were represented within the European domain in the early twentieth century paying particular attention to the research done by Jacqui Sutton Beets in her book ?Bitter Sweet: Indigenous women in the Pacific?. Investigating the meanings and functions based on the ideologies of the time as well as the importance these representations have held within