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Race and Gender Politics in African-American Cinema
What role has Black music played in popularising African-American cinema for a mass audience? Relate your argument to any TWO films of your choice
Music has always been a vital tool in film, especially theme songs like Shaft (1971) and Superfly (1972), we are able to connect and recognise what the film will be about.
To show the role Black music has played in popularising African-American cinema, I will be using two very different films form two different genres and decades. ... The film was financed independently by Sig Shore and was released during the blaxploitation boom of the early seventies the film focuses on “[…] a sexualised patriarch in the guise of the black superstud” other dominant themes taken from blaxploitation films are, black nationalism over sexed black women and the reconstructed roles of patriarchal black males for example Priest and black Caesar. ... Directed by Theodore Witcher, which focus on the lives of two young black Americans Nina Mosley and Darius Lovehall and there struggle to find love in a lonely world, this film is a drama, romance.
The themes tunes to early films were important as the soundtrack often preceded the film to build up the publicity, and attracted the viewers to the cinema.
Approximate Word count = 1003
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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