I'm sure it will be not only empowering but moving as
well for black audiences everywhere to finally feel represented in this white - dominated, universally beloved genre.
Buirski illustrates these scenes of national consciousness - raising with snippets from race films, an American genre of interwar movies starring black actors and
filmed for black audiences.
One of the more self - referential gags here concerns the dearth of cinematic
options for black audiences that don't involve Tyler Perry, a problem to which Simien's movie, successfully crowd - funded on the basis of a well - received three - minute concept trailer, presents itself as one of many possible solutions.
Black Panther, on the other hand, was a passion project directed by African - American director Ryan Coogler, and transcended its comic book origins to become a deeply empowering
vision for Black audiences, resonating well beyond the target audience.
Inspired by the Statue of Liberty, the figure bears a headpiece made from recycled mini flagpoles, and a belt made from bullets, validating her warrior status and inspired by Blaxploitation films of the time, which featured prominent elements of black pop
culture for black audiences.
To me, Papillion's gallery recalls W.E.B. DuBois» dream for Black drama: It would be by, for and near African - Americans — though it'd be inaccurate to suggest that Papillion is
only for Black audiences.
In «Speaking of People,» artists cut, collage, and repurpose Ebony and Jet — two magazines launched in the mid — twentieth
century for black audiences — to draw attention to representations of race in print.
«Her work isn't meant to be
just for black audiences; this is a concern for all mankind, which is why there is such a poignant and poetic presence in all her images.»
4 — Pioneers of African - American Cinema (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) is the first comprehensive effort devoted to collecting and preserving feature films and shorts produced between 1915 and 1946
for black audiences, most of them made by African - American filmmakers.
... Superhero movies have long needed this kind of representation in terms of men and women of color, and
for black audiences, «Black Panther» will undoubtedly be as culturally significant in the way it addresses subjects of identity, race and gender as «Wonder Woman» was to female fans.»