List of films about black girlhood
This is a list of films about black girlhood. This age group can range from young children to those experiencing adolescence. These depictions are often called coming-of-age stories.[1][2]
pre-1980s
- Black Girl[1] (1972)
1980-1989
- The Color Purple[2] (1985)
- Polly[2] (1989)
1990-1999
2000-2009
- Love & Basketball[2] (2000)
- Our Song[3][1] (2000)
- Akeelah and the Bee[2][3] (2006)
- Half Nelson[4] (2006)
- Precious[2][3] (2009)
2010-2019
- Pariah[2][3](2011)
- Yelling to the Sky[2] (2011)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild[2] (2012)
- Girlhood[3][1] (2014)
- The Fits[5][3] (2015)
- Flowers[6] (2016)
- The Girl with All the Gifts[7] (2016)
- Queen of Katwe[8] (2016)
- For Ahkeem[9] (2017)
- I Am Not a Witch[10] (2017)
- Everything, Everything (2017)
- Roxanne, Roxanne[8] (2017)
- Jinn[3][1](2018)
- Night Comes On[3] (2018)
- Rafiki[10] (2018)
- Solace[11] (2018)
- The Hate U Give[12] (2018)
- A Wrinkle in Time[8] (2018)
- Jezebel[11] (2019)
- Little[13] (2019)
- Rocks[14] (2019)
- Premature[11] (2019)
- Selah and the Spades[11] (2019)
- See You Yesterday[15] (2019)
- The Sun Is Also a Star[8] (2019)
- Atlantics[7] (2019)
2020
- Miss Juneteenth[16] (2020)
- Cuties[17] (2020)
- Pillars[17] (2020)
See also
References
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- "Finding Our Own Coming-Of-Age Narratives". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- "The 11 Most Essential Movies That Showcase The Beauty And Nuance Of Black Girlhood On The Big Screen". shadowandact.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- Blay, Zeba (2021). Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture. St. Martin’s Griffin. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- McLaughlin, Katherine (2017-03-17). "This Powerful Film About Black Girlhood Is Being Compared to 'Moonlight'". Broadly. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- "How Two Filmmakers Are Taking on the Complexity of Black Girlhood". Black Enterprise. 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- Folkes, Sula Douglas (2020-11-28). "Is this the Golden Age for films about Black Girlhood?". We Are Parable. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
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- "'For Ahkeem' Is THE Millennial Documentary On Black Girlhood - JetMag.com". www.jetmag.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- "A Guide to Essential, Underrated, and Flat-Out Extraordinary Films by Black Women Directors". Tribeca. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- "Stop Saying There Are No Coming Of Age Films About Black Girls [Opinion]". shadowandact.com. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- Ford, Tanisha C. (2018-10-19). "The Complexity of Black Girlhood Is at the Heart of 'The Hate U Give'". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- "Marsai Martin And Issa Rae Want More Depictions Of Black Girlhood On Screen". Essence. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- Garrett, Camryn (2022-02-17). "Five Coming-of-Age Movies for the Black Female Experience". Vogue. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- "THE TRAILER FOR NETLFIX'S 'SEE YOU YESTERDAY' IS AN AFROFUTURIST DREAM". AFROPUNK. 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- Gyarkye, Lovia (2020-06-18). "'Miss Juneteenth' Review: Celebrating Black Girlhood". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- Tillet, Salamishah (2020-10-02). "What the 'Cuties' Critics Can't See: The Complexities of Black Girlhood". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
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