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Election is a 1999 American black comedy film directed by Alexander Payne from a screenplay by Payne and Jim Taylor, based on Tom Perrotta's 1998 novel.. The plot revolves around a student body election and satirizes politics and high school life.
By the 1990s American attitudes on race were becoming more liberal and a new wave of films looked back at the Civil Rights Movement as history, beginning with Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning of 1989, right through to Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996. [14] More recently, Ava DuVernay's 2014 film Selma has shown there is much more in the civil ...
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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.
The Birth of a Race; Black and White (1999 drama film) Black and White (2008 Italian film) Black Is King; Black Like Me (film) Black or White (film) Black Sea (film) Black, White & Blue; Blind Justice (1988 film) Blood & Orchids; Blood in the Face; Bobby (2006 film) Boiling Pot; Borderline (1930 film) Bordertown (1935 film) Born in Flames ...
Former President Trump said he needs a “mandate” from the American electorate this year as Election Day is just less than a month away. Trump said at a rally in Juneau, Wis., on Sunday that he ...
In the early days of cinema, African-American roles were scarce and often filled with stereotypes. Pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, one of the first significant African-American filmmakers, countered these narratives with films like The Homesteader (1919) and Body and Soul (1925), which were part of the "race film" genre and tackled issues such as racial violence, economic oppression, and ...
Beginning in 1915, and continuing until the 1950s, African-American production companies partnered with independent film companies to create "race films," movies with African-American casts targeted at poor, and primarily Southern, African-American audiences by African-American producers working on much tighter budgets than their Hollywood rivals.