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Charles Burnett is one of the earliest Black film directors on this list. He made his mark with experimental masterpieces like “Killer of Sheep” (1978) and “To Sleep with Anger” (1990).
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [58] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
In film, Afrofuturism is the incorporation of black people's history and culture in science fiction film and related genres. The Guardian ' s Ashley Clark said the term Afrofuturism has "an amorphous nature" but that Afrofuturist films are "united by one key theme: the centering of the international black experience in alternate and imagined realities, whether fiction or documentary; past or ...
The film's heat-ray is shaped like a cobra's hood with a single, red pulsing eye, which possibly acts like a targeting telescope for the Martians. The book describes another weapon, the black smoke used to kill all life; the war machines fire projectiles containing a black powder through a bazooka-like tube accessory.
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood's Magazine (credited to "H. de V.") between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year.
Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Directed by. Pearl Bowser, Ebony Film Corporation, Zora Neale Hurston, Solomon Sir Jones, Richard C. Kahn, Lincoln Motion Picture Company, Richard Maurice, Oscar Micheaux, Richard Norman, Spencer Williams Jr. Produced by.
Noted author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was also a filmmaker, most famously of the ethnographic documentary Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 This list of African American documentary films (1930s–present) includes films that were made by African Americans , as well as films on the topic of African Americans.