Justin Simien in 'Hollywood Black'
The Big Picture Black films with Black creators and Black casts have become commonplace these days. From the Black Panther films to Tyler Perry's Madea movies, even fun horror flicks like The Blackening, Black culture has become pop culture. While we all still have a lot of work to do, Black films have come a long way over the past hundred years — and the new MGM+ four-part docuseries Hollywood Black covers it all.
Release Date August 11, 2024 Main Genre Documentary Seasons 1 What Is 'Hollywood Black' About? Hollywood Black started as a book written by Donald Bogle and published by Turner Classic Movies, 2019's Hollywood Black: The Stars, the Films, the Filmmakers. Bogle's book covered the entire history of Black film, from the silent era of a hundred years to the popularity of Black films and actors today.
Hollywood Black breaks down the history of Black film into four distinct eras. It knows it can't tell its story without beginning with the highly controversial Birth of a Nation and minstrel shows, but this era is about more than shame — because there is also the emergence of the first well-known Black filmmaker, Oscar Michaeaux, whose works aimed to show how his people really were, exposing white audiences to their first glimpse of Black people as just that and not caricatures.
Hollywood Black is a celebration of the entirety of Black film. One scene might be about Hattie McDaniel or Lena Horne, but the next will challenge you with a history lesson about Paul Robeson, the first Black leading man. You can't talk about the 1970s without a discussion about the positives and negatives of Blaxploitation, an era that pushed the flamboyant but also often offered cartoonish representations of Black people.
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