{"id":701,"date":"2022-04-16T22:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T22:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/?p=701"},"modified":"2024-02-05T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:07:40","slug":"film-and-civil-rights-race-relations-and-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Film and Civil Rights: Race Relations and Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Jinhee Nelson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Though a slow and painful road, Black integration into Hollywood has improved film portrayals of the Black community as well as interracial relations within the United States and other parts of the world. By explaining how film as a medium of communication has a special influence on viewers\u2019 comprehension\u2014via cultural transmission\u2014and by summarizing some landmark events in Black film history, this essay aims to show that Black integration in the film industry has played an integral role in the civil rights movement by altering how Blacks are perceived and increasing the roles they are given to better reflect the community and their contributions at large.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\">*\u201cThe 12th Academy Awards: 1940.\u201d <em>Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences<\/em>, https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/oscars\/ceremonies\/1940.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor-in-Chief<\/strong><br>Jenna Woolley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project Manager<\/strong><br>Sophie Graham<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Film-and-Civil-Rights_-Race-Relations-and-Film-Aperture-2022.docx.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Film-and-Civil-Rights_-Race-Relations-and-Film-Aperture-2022.docx<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leading Editor <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily Colton<br><strong><br>Supporting Editors<br><\/strong>AJ Migorance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan Beus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marissa Lundeen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copyeditor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleur Van Woerkom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jinhee Nelson Though a slow and painful road, Black integration into Hollywood has improved film portrayals of the Black community as well as interracial relations within the United States and other parts of the world. By explaining how film as a medium of communication has a special influence on viewers\u2019 comprehension\u2014via cultural transmission\u2014and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aperture.byu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}