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Of these 31 characters, only four were Black/African-American (12.9 percent) in comparison to 26 white characters making up 83.9 percent of LGBT representation in films for this year. [27] The 2016 report showed a small increase, with 23 out of 125 films containing LGBT characters.
In 2013, five African-American films were released (12 Years a Slave, Fruitvale Station, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Best Man Holiday and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). [citation needed] The release of such films had a broader impact on the film industry with movie attendance by African Americans growing by thirteen percent compared to 2012. [12]
Historically, the portrayal of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in media has been largely negative if not altogether absent, reflecting a general cultural intolerance of LGBTQ individuals; however, from the 1990s to present day, there has been an increase in the positive depictions of LGBTQ people, issues, and concerns within mainstream media in North America. [1]
Among critics, the misuse and misrepresentation of indigenous cultures are seen as an exploitative form of colonialism and one step in the destruction of indigenous cultures. [184] The results of this appropriation of indigenous knowledge have led some tribes and the United Nations General Assembly to issue several declarations on the subject.
Anna May Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, commonly featured in Hollywood films as supporting characters or "Dragon Lady" villainesses during the early 1920s. Anti-miscegenation laws prevented onscreen interracial relationships, forcing Wong to remain in stereotypical " vamp " roles until Daughter of the Dragon in 1931.
The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-55581-7. Hearne, Joanna (2013). Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. Liza Black. 2020. Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960.
Reitz wrote that often trans women are cast as villains in film and television, citing examples of bad representation in the films Sleepaway Camp (1983) and Silence of the Lambs (1991), and further criticizing TV shows such as Law & Order (1990-2010), CSI (2000-2015), NCIS (2003-Present), and The Closer (2005-2012) as doing the same thing.
In considering the way that films are put together, many feminist film critics [weasel words] have pointed to the "male gaze" that predominates in classical Hollywood film-making. Budd Boetticher summarizes the view thus: "What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents. She is the one, or rather the love or fear she ...