Blacks Independant Film Industry
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:25:50
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
Length: 5 pages (1396 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
Length: 5 pages (1396 words)
In 1915, after the release of "Birth of a Nation" African Americans formed their own independent film industry as a form of a counter attack. They went out and found their own funding in order to produce films with much more positive images of Blacks. African American filmmakers were forced to Operate outside of the mainstream film industry. These filmmakers wanted to respond to the negative stereotypes of African Americans in Hollywood films. The audiences were …
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…blacks and whites in film.
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Delaney R. African Americans in motion picture the past and the present. African Americans in motion pictures. (2006 February 28). http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/movies.htm#timeline
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