Film Review Essay

Finley, Laura; Finley, Peter S.

doi:10.1080/1028258042000221201

Contemporary Justice Review

2004

DOI: 10.1080/1028258042000221201

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Film Review Essay

Laura Finley¹,

Peter S. Finley

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Representation of Anti-racism and Reconstruction of Black Identity in Black Panther

Jiaxi

Changsong

2022

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The black superhero film is an important research object for anti-racism development. Under the White supremacy framework, Black people and culture have been devalued and neglected for a long time. The all-Black lead Marvel film Black Panther, directed by Ryan Coogler in 2018, employs a well-defined system to present the appeals on anti-racist and reconstruct the filmic Black identity. This study explicitly analyses the approach through which the images of Black people and Black culture are represented, and it attempts to understand how this film reconstructs Black people’s sense of self-identity. This study focuses on the physical appearance of Black superheroes and material culture, the spatial narrative of Black Panther’s fictional spatial world Wakanda, and the Black spirit depicted in the film. Cultural identity, cinematic representation theory, and social identity theory are used to interpret how Black Panther reconstructs Black identity and represents Black culture. This study discovers that Black superheroes are portrayed as powerful, justice, and wise as White people, and Wakanda provides a utopia for a non-racist world. Meanwhile, Black culture is depicted elegantly and proudly to reconstruct Black people’s recognition of cultural and social identity.

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Representation of Anti-racism and Reconstruction of Black Identity in Black Panther

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Changsong

2022

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Film Review Essay

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Representation of Anti-racism and Reconstruction of Black Identity in Black Panther

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