|
African American Women In The Silent Film Era
African American cinema evolved at just about the same pace as white cinema, and although the role of Black women in early silent film has only recently begun to receive popular and academic attention, Black women were involved in Black cinema from the very start of U.S. film history. In their own day, Maria P. Williams was called the first Black woman filmmaker for her work on ''The Flames of Wrath'' (1923) and Tressie Souders was also honored with the same distinction for her work in ''A Woman’s Error'' (1922). Others have argued that that distinction belongs to Madame E. Toussaint Welcome's war documentary ''Doing Their Bit'' (1916) or Eloyce King Patrick Gist for ''Hell Bound Train'' (ca. 1929-30). What's certain is that Black women were contributing as screenwriters, actors, directors and producers from the earliest days of film. History The film industry's pioneers include Alice B. Russell, Eslanda Robeson, Eloyce King Patrick Gist, Zora Neale Hurston, Tressie Souders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdie Gilmore
Birdy or Birdie may refer to: Places in the United States * Birdie, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Birdie, Mississippi, an unincorporated community People with the name * Birdie Blye (1871–1935), American pianist * Birdy (singer) (born 1996), the stage name of English singer-songwriter Jasmine van den Bogaerde * Birdy, pseudonym of a former guitarist of the glam punk band Trashcan Darlings * Henry Robertson Bowers (1883–1912), nicknamed "Birdie", participant in Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole * Byrd Spilman Dewey (1856–1942), nicknamed "Birdie", American author and land investor * Birdy Sweeney (1931–1999), Irish actor and comedian * Birdie Tebbetts (1912–1999), American baseball player and manager * Jack Ward ( 1553–1622), nicknamed "Birdy", notorious English pirate and Barbary Corsair Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Birdie (Street Fighter), in Capcom's video games * Betty Draper, on ''Mad Men'', whom Don Draper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Davenport
Fannie Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer. Born into a family of film performers, Davenport had her own independent career before her marriage to the film actor and director Wallace Reid in 1913. Reid's star rose steadily, making feature films at a pace of one every seven weeks, until 1919 when a dose of morphine administered for an injury on location grew into an addiction. Reid died in January 1923 at the age of 31. Davenport took her own story as source material and co-produced ''Human Wreckage'' (1923), in which she was billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" and played the role of a drug addict's wife. She advertised the film in terms of a moral crusade. Davenport followed its success with other social-conscience films on other topics, ''Broken Laws'' (1924) and ''The Red Kimono'' (1925), with expensive litigation connected with the latter. While Davenport's own production company dissolved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film People
Silent may mean any of the following: People with the name * Silent George, George Stone (outfielder) (1876–1945), American Major League Baseball outfielder and batting champion * Brandon Silent (born 1973), South African former footballer * Charles Silent (1842-1918), German-born American jurist Arts, entertainment, and media Music * "Silent" (Gerald Walker), the first single from the rapper * Silent (rock group), a Brazilian rock group * The Silents, an Australian psychedelic rock band Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Dark (broadcasting) or silent, an off-air radio or TV station * Silent film, a film with no sound Other uses * Air Energy AE-1 Silent, a German self-launching ultralight sailplane * Buffalo Silents, a 1920s exhibition basketball team whose members were deaf and/or mute * Silent Family, a German aircraft manufacturer * Silent Generation, a demographic cohort between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers * Silent letter, a letter in a word ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Women
Black women are women of sub-Saharan African and African diaspora, Afro-diasporic descent, as well as women of Aboriginal Australians, Australian Aboriginal and Melanesians, Melanesian descent. The term 'Black people, Black' is a Race (human categorization), racial classification of people, the definition of which has shifted over time and across cultures. As a result, the term 'Black women' describes a wide range of cultural identities with several meanings around the world. Being a Black woman is also frequently described as being hit by a double whammy due to the twofold social biases encountered by Black women for being female as well a part of the Black community. Intersectionality and misogynoir Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw developed the theory of intersectionality, which highlighted the overlapping discrimination faced by Black women (on the basis of both race and gender) in the United States. The theory has been influential in the fields of feminism and critical race theory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women In Film
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Cinema
African American cinema is loosely classified as films made by, for, or about Black Americans. They are an example of Black film. Historically, African American films have been made with African-American casts and marketed to African-American audiences. The production team and director were sometimes also African American. More recently, Black films featuring multicultural casts aimed at multicultural audiences have also included American Blackness as an essential aspect of the storyline. Segregation, discrimination, issues of representation, derogatory stereotypes and tired tropes have dogged Black American cinema from the start of a century-plus history that roughly coincided with the century-plus history of American cinema. From the very earliest days of moving pictures, major studios used Black actors to appeal to Black audiences while also often relegating them to bit parts, casting women as maids or nannies, and men as natives or servants or either gender as a "magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Cultural History
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, enslaved Africans who are from the United States. While some Black immigrants or their children may also come to identify as African-American, the majority of first generation immigrants do not, preferring to identify with their nation of origin. African Americans constitute the second largest racial group in the U.S. after White Americans, as well as the third largest ethnic group after Hispanic and Latino Americans. Most African Americans are descendants of enslaved people within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of West Africa, West/Central Africa, Central African with some European descent; some also have Native Americans in the United States, Native American and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race Film
The race film or race movie was a genre of film produced in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for black audiences, and featuring black casts. Approximately five hundred race films were produced. Of these, fewer than one hundred remain. Because race films were produced outside the Hollywood studio system, they were largely forgotten by mainstream film historians until they resurfaced in the 1980s on the BET cable network. In their day, race films were very popular among African-American theatergoers. Their influence continues to be felt in cinema and television marketed to African Americans. The term "race film" is sometimes used to describe films of the period aimed at other minority audiences. For instance, the 1926 film ''Silk Bouquet'' (also known as ''The Dragon Horse'') starred the Asian-American actress Anna May Wong and was marketed to Chinese-American audiences. Financing and production African Americans produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneers Of African-American Cinema
''Pioneers of African-American Cinema'' (2015) is a digitally restored anthology collection of independent Black cinema from the first half of the 20th century. About Known as " race films," this category of film was made outside of the Hollywood system, and is notable for its exploration of issues of "class, gender, and politics within the Black community." The most important of these filmmakers was groundbreaking auteur Oscar Micheaux, whose films '' Within Our Gates'' (1920), with "its head-on confrontation of racism and lynching,''"The Symbol of the Unconquered'' (1920), about black homesteaders struggling for survival against the Ku Klux Klan on the Midwestern plains," and ''Body and Soul'' (1925), featuring legendary performer Paul Robeson's debut as an escaped prisoner, are all included. Directors Spencer Williams, Richard Maurice, writer and ethnographer Zora Neale Hurston, and film-making couple James and Eloyce Gist are all represented, too, however, as are a variety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Women Filmmakers
Black women filmmakers have made contributions throughout the history of film. According to Nsenga Burton, writer for ''The Root'', "the film industry remains overwhelmingly white and male. In 2020, 74.6 percent of movie directors of theatrical films were white, showing a small decrease from the previous year. In terms of representation, 25.4 percent of film directors were of ethnic minority in 2020. Of the 25.4 percent of black filmmakers, a small percentage was female. Around 30 percent of film makers are women, and approximately 7 percent of all film makers in the film industry are African-American. Many of the dramas by black women film makers have portrayed subjects such as racism and misogyny. Television programs, and films such as '' I May Destroy You'', ''Daughters of the Dust'', and '' Middle of Nowhere'' are a few examples of audio/visual media that have portrayed issues centered around a community of African-American women. Since the early 1900s black women have used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African American Cinema
African American cinema is loosely classified as films made by, for, or about Black Americans. They are an example of Black film. Historically, African American films have been made with African-American casts and marketed to African-American audiences. The production team and director were sometimes also African American. More recently, Black films featuring multicultural casts aimed at multicultural audiences have also included American Blackness as an essential aspect of the storyline. Segregation, discrimination, issues of representation, derogatory stereotypes and tired tropes have dogged Black American cinema from the start of a century-plus history that roughly coincided with the century-plus history of American cinema. From the very earliest days of moving pictures, major studios used Black actors to appeal to Black audiences while also often relegating them to bit parts, casting women as maids or nannies, and men as natives or servants or either gender as a "magical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> African-American Cinema")
