New Black Cinema

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Director Spike Lee

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

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 .

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