FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Leitmotif, Melvin Van Peebles, Diegesis
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Week #5: race, ethnicity, and cinema do the right thing. 1960"s the black panther party and malcolm x advocated violence. For many the films of poitier were inconsistent for its time. During this time black made and starred films became popular. Sweet sweetbacks"s baadasssss song, melvin van peebles 1971. Independently made and produce by van peebles. Became popular hollywood began to produce films with black actors as their protagonists. The popularity of sweet sweetbacks"s baadasssss song, led to more such films. Backlash for being sexism, filmmakers started making films with women. Many of the films dealing with race werner made by african american directors. Melvin van peebles one of the first african directors. Many of the blaxploitation weren"t done by african americans. The film is highly stylized despite being set in location. Colour palette: community bursting with colour, red substancial, heat connotative and denotative meaning, green complementary to red, green deployed in the films distance to red, ex.
