Black Diaspora Cinemas
[1] The film industry has an exclusively influential ubiquity in human culture. For decades, black[2] cinema has been used to highlight the socio-economic and political issues affecting the black community. Black Diaspora cinema focuses on the effects of film production of western cultures, distribution methods, capitalist production, and colonialism, and the continued neo-colonialism of individuals and nations in which movie production is practiced. It explores cinema along political and cultural lines and analyzes the works of aesthetically and radical alternative cinema. Many scholars argue that it is almost impossible to give an explicit definition of the term “black cinema.” They employ that the idea of black cinema encompasses all films about black experiences written, produced, directed, and performed by a black cast for a black audience. It has, however, been contested that black diaspora movies are not as profitable as white movies, a factor that has continually affected the position of black films and actors in modern society.[3]
Background Information In modern society, it is almost impossible to look at[4] black diasporic flicks without perceiving them as a part of minoritarian or third world[5] films. What makes third world cinema [6]historicizes[7] also frames the subject of black moviemaking as an oppositional and social practice. The ethnically sundry populations of the largely black community are concentrated in the third world[8] , mainly in African[9] and America[10] , and they share a unique bond of a history of colonialism with other marginalized groups (Michael[11] 70). Therefore, black cinema and its application to spatial, temporal as well as a[12] cultural process is a subject of debate and study among