Tag: black female direcotrs

• [From the Archives] “Belle” 2014 movie review

  

  [Originally published May 2014; Updated in September 2020] Films about black women, even when based on the original works created and written by black women, are often helmed by male filmmakers once they reach the highest form of flattery: the visual adaptation. As Tyler Perry and Steven Spielberg translated For Colored Girls (2010) and The…

  C.S.J.

  September 21, 2020

  FILM, GIRL POWER, HISTORY, INFORMATION, RACE POLITICS/RACISM, SEXISM+GENDER

  Amma Asante, Belle, Belle 2013 movie, Belle 2014 movie, Belle movie, black directors, black female direcotrs, black female history, black female stories, black feminitity, black films, Black history, black stories, black women, Dido Elizabeth Belle, Gugu Mbatha-Raw