Article: Re-creating their media image: two generations of black women filmmakers. (includes filmography)

A veritable media sensation has greeted the arrival of hip-hop, 'home-boy' filmmakers of the Nineties such as Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City), Ernest Dickerson (Juice), John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood), and Albert and Allen Hughes (Menace II Society). While it is refreshing to see black males finally being given the opportunity to make films in the commercial film industry, the somewhat self-serving media hoopla about them has all but eclipsed a far more complex, diverse, and challenging body of work by black women. This cinema runs the gamut from full-length features and documentaries to dramatic shorts, experimental narratives, and docudramas of varying lengths. Linked ...

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