Sentences with phrase «black protagonist»

One African American crime writer tells me her agent says publishers don't believe there's a market for books with black protagonists: it's hard to crack the white ceiling.

On view are key works from Colescott's «Bathers» series (1984 - 85), which place black protagonists into the foreground of classical turn of the century paintings.

Dick and Jane, fragmented and reassembled, becomes a ghoulish leitmotif when we meet the young black protagonists whose sense of self - worth is warped by the white standards of beauty exemplified by Shirley Temple and Dick and Jane.

Due to its 1960s setting and black protagonist Mafia 3 deals with racism a lot, and to its credit doesn't shy away from the topic, portraying it as an everyday thing that was simply a part of the culture of the time, an everyday occurrence.

Player character diversity: Few of Ubisoft's games had one identifiable (human) protagonist, but Watch Dogs 2 is notable for starring black protagonist Marcus Holloway.

BaadAsssss Cinema is an apt examination of blaxploitation film, the 1970s explosion of on - screen black protagonists that thrilled black and white audiences alike with a potent combination of action, sex, and the funky styles of the day.

But now that it's happening, I'm super-proud to say, yes, our game stars a female black protagonist — and she's the cooler one.»

The studio chief said there's a cultural shift — but that's not why he's releasing three stories with black protagonists this year

This homage to Ezra Jack Keats takes the form of a biographical poem, telling of his creation of Peter, the young, black protagonist of The Snowy Day, and Keats» impact on children's literature.

Although it is at heart a western, Assault on Precinct 13 is also positioned as a Blaxploitation film, due to its black protagonist and theme of gang warfare.

It is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie with a black protagonist.

The comic - book adaptation is making history; it's the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to feature a black protagonist.

This film can not disappoint, I know you can say that for any Marvel trailer, but this is a Marvel film with a black protagonist, so this is a major step forward for Marvel, now that poster, it's not as bad as that overcrowded Homecoming poster, but, still pretty bad in terms of the photoshop

«And it's amazing that Blumhouse, QC Entertainment and Universal have empowered Jordan [Peele] to tell his side of the story, to have a black protagonist... it doesn't mean you have to compromise cinematic technique.»

But the small gestures and comments from the seemingly well - meaning white family that build an atmosphere of unease for our black protagonist all communicate the same alienating message, more fearsome than the shambling walking dead or any supernatural plot: No matter how welcoming we may seem, our differences are insurmountable and you do not belong in our land.

With Get Out, writer - director Peele doesn't just present a standard horror film with a black protagonist; he's not just subverting the hoary «black guy always dies first» trope.

She said that while it's not a large population, comprising just 2.3 % of all residents, it was important to show up in force for the first Marvel movie to feature a black protagonist.

It's self - flattery without risk: The survival of Get Out's black protagonist, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), avoids the pain of Ben's fate but cheats the audience by appealing to its vanity and inexperience.

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Lavalle, an African - American writer, has placed the black protagonist in the heart of a classic Lovecraft novella.

According to findings by the Pew Research Institute in 2015, nearly half of the Americans who play video games are black or Hispanic, but a comparatively small number of games feature a protagonist of color and a black protagonist even less than that.

Black protagonists are just as under - represented as Native Americans, but no one is raising a ruckus over not including any of our cultural specifics.

January 3, 2017 • Creators of Mafia III, set in a fictionalized Louisiana, took a documentary approach to confronting players with prejudice and bigotry of the 1960s South from the perspective of a black protagonist.

[Kerry James] Marshall «inflects a social realist style with hints of Pop and Surrealist aesthetics to represent his black protagonists.»

In describing «Vignette,» Christie's says Marshall «inflects a social realist style with hints of Pop and Surrealist aesthetics to represent his black protagonists.

Taking its title from the celebrated 1952 novel by Ralph Ellison, in which the black protagonist feels overlooked and ignored by society, Marshall interprets the title literally, blending his dark - skinned subject into a jet - black background.

In Vignette, he inflects a social realist style with hints of Pop and Surrealist aesthetics to represent his black protagonists.