How movies get made
This word describes the energy of a film. It tells us what feelings we can expect to feel and what film techniques we can expect to see on screen
Genre
This Denzel movie centers a debate team at the HBCU Wiley college led by a black communist Melvin b. Tolson.
The Great Debators
These three derogatory caricatures have unfortunately trailed the presence of black women in film since the beginning of black presence in films.
mammy, jezebel, sapphire.
This widely watched 1915 film is noted for its immensely racist ideas. It shaped the early film industry and was watched at the white house. The film villainized reconstruction and black political leadership after slavery, and advocates for the kkk as the great saviors of the south. All while done in blackface.
The Birth of a Nation.
These people are in charge of the actors, the blocking, and the overall look, feel, pace and vibes of each scene. They are there to ensure the production aligns with the story.
Directors
This music-dominated documentary showcases how black jazz artists were used as International diplomats during the world war distract from internal U.S. racial problems and its imperialist foreign policy, especially in Congo
Soundtrack to a coup d’ etat
This 19th century form of entertainment became the most popular form of entertainment in the United states. Its songs and plays set the stage for early hollywood cinema. It’s legacy continues in many films and music today.
Blackface minstrelsy
Despite its harmful portrayal of dark skinned black women, this film helped create a boom in enrollment at HBCUs in the late 80s and early 90s
School Daze
These people pay for the film. They make sure that everything and everyone required to make the film run are hired and get paid. They also think about how the film will be marketed.
Producers
This 1982 LA rebellion film follows a black Vietnam war vet as he comes home to his radicalized community and battles post traumatic stress.
Ashes and Embers
These films were popularized in the 1970s depicting black people as pimps and hustlers. Black women were portrayed as loud, obnoxious and sexually indiscreet. the movie shaft was a prime example of this genre of film.
Blaxploitation films
This 1966 film set in algeria highlights the national liberation fronts struggle against french colonialism. The film became a call to arms and a how-to manual for third world liberation struggles. The film was routinely watched by the black panther party.
Battle of Algiers
These people direct the cameras and instruct the lighting team in order to produce the best images and color for the film.
Directors of Photography.
This film, directed by independent filmmaker Kathleen Collins follows a black woman philosophy professor seeking an ecstatic experience while her cheating artist husband continues to gaslight her.
Losing Ground
This term describes a black character trope where a black character harboring an unfounded supernatural, extraordinary, spiritual, or magical sense is mostly used to morally develop a non-black main character or “teach them a life lesson.”
Magical Negro
This highly influential 1944 propaganda film was a collaboration between the war department, Hollywood, the army, and the naacp. The movie used positive images of black soldiers to promote racial ”racial tolerance”. The goal was to use black achievement to “smooth over the erasure of slavery and segregation and the ambiguous role of blacks in U.S. imperialism”.
The negro soldier
This genre of independent cinema defies familiar western film approaches. A film within this genre challenges ideas of colonialism and capitalism and often highlights the lived experiences of people from the third world with a focus on Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Third Cinema
This early 90’s documentary follows June Jordan and Angela Davis as they recollect the civil rights and black power movement and the lessons it taught about race, class, and gender, and political economy
A place of rage
This concept describes how marginalized characters appear on mainstream film and television. According to this popular media studies concept, marginalized characters are either not present at all (invisibilized), are made into a silly side character (trivialized), or made into the criminal (criminalized).
Symbolic annihilation
This U.S. department has deep ties to Hollywood. If it deems that script changes need to be made for it to authorize support and offer resources/assets, then the producers must adhere to these requests and sign a production assistance agreement. A technical adviser ensures that the agreed-upon script is the one that is actually used when shooting. This U.S. department requires a post-production viewing to certify that there is nothing in the film that contravenes the agreement and may make further suggestions at this stage.
Department of War