In 2019, she even helped to discover film's earliest depiction of affection between two Black actors. University of Chicago associate professor of cinema and media studies, Allyson Nadia Field, has long studied the history of Black cinema. Thankfully, there are creators of past and present who recognized that disparity and make room for those necessary stories. If you're never able to find stories that you relate to in which people share aspects of your identity or sexuality, that can be a really problematic." She continues, "Especially today, part of how we construct our identities and come to terms with our identities is seeing ourselves through the media and seeing media that we identify with. Belle, a media, politics and identity researcher who contributed to the upcoming essay collection, Black Love Matters. "When you are only portraying certain people as being worthy of love, or that certain people are worthy of being centered, that is very much making an implicit political statement," says Carole V. This exists in direct contrast to the wants of Black viewers, who have long craved an increase in depictions of complex, love-filled content when it comes to the big screen. But years later, in a country that puts so much value on the impact of entertainment, the mainstream rom-com genre is still overwhelmed with depictions of predominantly white characters falling in love. The decade gave way to essential classics like Poetic Justice and Love Jones. Many pop culture savants will point to the 1990s, which is widely viewed as the sweet spot for Black romance movies. When it comes to depictions of Black stories in Hollywood, aside from the belly laughs induced by some of our most rewatched comedies, there's perhaps no other better pure, understated depiction of joy than a romance.
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