An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Film has been the most influential medium in the presentation of the history of slavery to the general public. The American film industry has had a complex relationship with slavery, and until recent decades often avoided the topic. Films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) became controversial because they gave a favorable depiction. In 1940, The Santa Fe Trail gave a strong condemnation of abolitionist John Brown's attacks on slavery. The American civil rights movement in the 1950s made defiant slaves into heroes.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Film has been the most influential medium in the presentation of the history of slavery to the general public. The American film industry has had a complex relationship with slavery, and until recent decades often avoided the topic. Films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) became controversial because they gave a favorable depiction. In 1940, The Santa Fe Trail gave a strong condemnation of abolitionist John Brown's attacks on slavery. The American civil rights movement in the 1950s made defiant slaves into heroes. Most Hollywood films used American settings, although Spartacus (1960) dealt with an actual slave revolt in the Roman Empire known as the Third Servile War. It failed, and all the rebels were executed, but their spirit lived on according to the film. The Last Supper (La última cena in Spanish) was a 1976 film directed by Cuban Tomás Gutiérrez Alea about the teaching of Christianity to slaves in Cuba and emphasizes the role of ritual and revolt. The 1969 film Burn! takes place on the imaginary Portuguese island of Queimada (where the locals speak Spanish) and merges historical events that took place in Brazil, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Jamaica, and elsewhere. (en)
  • La première évocation de l'esclavage au cinéma remonte à 1903 avec La Case de l'oncle Tom, d'Edwin S. Porter, qui donne la figure de l'esclave sympathique et dévoué à son maître. Premier grand succès du cinéma, Naissance d'une nation, de D.W. Griffith fige en 1915 l'imagerie raciste du Noir servile et en préfigure la vision nostalgique donnée dans Autant en emporte le vent, de Victor Fleming (1939). L'Esclave libre, de Raoul Walsh (1957) en prend le contrepied bien que son héroïne soit encore une Blanche à qui l'on découvre des origines afro-américaines. La traite transatlantique n'est évoquée qu'en 1969 avec Slaves, d'Herbert J. Biberman, puis dans la foulée du mouvement des droits civiques, la cruauté de l'esclavage est exposée dans Mandingo de Richard Fleischer (1975). La Blaxploitation s'empare de la thématique avec , de Fred Williamson (1972) dans une vision revancharde. Glory, d'Edward Zwick (1989) et Amistad, de Steven Spielberg (1997) connaissent le succès dans une veine consensuelle avec leurs héros blancs. Depuis 2012, plusieurs films donnent la vedette à des héros noirs comme Django Unchained, de Quentin Tarantino, Lincoln, de nouveau de Steven Spielberg, et Free State of Jones, de Gary Ross. Suit également Twelve Years a Slave, par le cinéaste noir britannique Steve McQueen, qui est basé sur l'histoire vraie de Solomon Northup — dont le récit publié en 1853 se vendit à 30.000 exemplaires — un homme noir né libre enlevé en 1841 par des négriers et réduit en esclavage en Louisiane pendant 12 ans. En 2016 sort le film The Birth of a Nation, du réalisateur afro-américain Nate Parker. (fr)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 39994392 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 32696 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1116649232 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Film has been the most influential medium in the presentation of the history of slavery to the general public. The American film industry has had a complex relationship with slavery, and until recent decades often avoided the topic. Films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) became controversial because they gave a favorable depiction. In 1940, The Santa Fe Trail gave a strong condemnation of abolitionist John Brown's attacks on slavery. The American civil rights movement in the 1950s made defiant slaves into heroes. (en)
  • La première évocation de l'esclavage au cinéma remonte à 1903 avec La Case de l'oncle Tom, d'Edwin S. Porter, qui donne la figure de l'esclave sympathique et dévoué à son maître. Premier grand succès du cinéma, Naissance d'une nation, de D.W. Griffith fige en 1915 l'imagerie raciste du Noir servile et en préfigure la vision nostalgique donnée dans Autant en emporte le vent, de Victor Fleming (1939). En 2016 sort le film The Birth of a Nation, du réalisateur afro-américain Nate Parker. (fr)
rdfs:label
  • Esclavage au cinéma (fr)
  • List of films featuring slavery (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is rdfs:seeAlso of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License