New Black Cinema
New Black Cinema is a genre name for films made by African American directors in the late 1980s and early 1990s .
A precise definition is difficult because the term New Black Cinema was already used by film critics of the Blaxploitation era or a New Black Cinema was called for. The main aim of this should be to use African-American actors differently than in mainstream cinema, whose casting and award policy was criticized as discriminatory and racist, and to present African-American topics from a separate perspective.
Nola Darling from Spike Lee is considered to be the initial spark of the New Black Cinema . The wave of successful Afro-American underground films ebbed already in the mid-1990s , when many were talking about New Black Hollywood and directors like Spike Lee, John Singleton and Mario van Peebles as well as their favorite actors like Denzel Washington , Wesley Snipes , Angela Bassett , Samuel L. Jackson and Rosie Perez had established themselves in Hollywood and also became commercially successful stars.
Typical films
- Nola Darling (She's Gotta Have It) (1986 Director: Spike Lee)
- Hollywood Shuffle (1987 Director: Robert Townsend)
- Do the Right Thing (1989 Director: Spike Lee)
- Mo 'Better Blues (1990 Director: Spike Lee)
- New Jack City (1990 Director: Mario Van Peebles)
- Jungle Fever (1991 directed by Spike Lee)
- Boyz n the Hood (1991 Director: John Singleton)
- Juice - City-War (1992 Director: Ernest Dickerson )
- Menace II Society (1992 directed by Allen and Albert Hughes )
- Malcolm X (1992 Director: Spike Lee)
- Higher Learning (1995 Director: John Singleton)
- Panther (1995 Director: Mario van Peebles)
- Hip Hop Hood (1996 Director: Parice Barseley)
- Eve's Bayou (1997 Director: Kasi Lemmons )
literature
- Claudia Bialasiewicz: Stations in Afro-American Film History. (= Essays on film and television , volume 62), coppi Verlag, Alfeld / Leine 1998. ISBN 3-930258-61-7 .
- Dennis Dührkoop: New Black Cinema of the 90s. (= Essays on film and television , volume 49), coppi Verlag, Alfeld / Leine 1997, ISBN 3-930258-48-X .
- Stephan Hoffstadt: Black Cinema. Contemporary African American filmmakers. (= Aufblende , Volume 8), Hitzeroth, Marburg 1995. ISBN 3-89616-179-2 .
Web links
- New Black Cinema In: Dictionary of Film Terms . ISSN 1610-420X .
- Ashley Clark: A short history of black US indie cinema In: British Film Institute , last version on July 17, 2018.
- Locarno72 presents the films from the Black Light retrospective for the Locarno Film Festival 2019retrospective.