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Although he did bring African-American culture to the spotlight, another blackface performer at the time, Bert Williams, found the performance both vulgar and repressive. [11] Negative portrayals of black men on TV, the internet, newspaper articles, and video games can be linked, in part, to lower life expectancies.
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.
Imagining Indians is a 1992 documentary film produced and directed by Hopi filmmaker, Victor Masayesva, Jr.The documentary attempts to reveal the misrepresentation of Indigenous Native American culture and tradition in Classical Hollywood films by interviews with different Indigenous Native American actors and extras from various tribes throughout the United States.
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]
The documentary attempts to reveal the misrepresentation of Indigenous American Indian culture and tradition in Classical Hollywood films by interviews with different Indigenous Native American actors and extras from various tribes throughout the United States.
Cultural Criticism and Transformation (1997), by bell hooks, is a two-part video that critiques stereotypical portrayals of race, gender and class in the media with extensive examples. In conclusion, hooks makes an argument for the power of cultural criticism. The interview style film is divided into two parts:
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.
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]