+*-PAPER 1 SECTON B FILM MARKETING : Black Panther : Historical and cultural contexts-*+

PAPER 1 SECTION B FILM MARKETING: Black Panther: Historical and cultural contexts

Harlem Renaissance 
The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighbourhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance and art.
Great Migration 
The northern Manhattan neighbourhood of Harlem was meant to be an upper-class white neighbourhood in the 1880s, but rapid overdevelopment led to empty buildings and desperate landlords seeking to fill them.
In the early 1900s, a few middle-class black families from another neighbourhood known as Black Bohemia moved to Harlem, and other black families followed. Some white residents initially fought to keep African Americans out of the area, but failing that many whites eventually fled.
 
The Black Panthers:
The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organisation founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, the Black Panthers organised armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. At its peak in 1968, the Black Panther Party had roughly 2,000 members. The organisation later declined as a result of internal tensions, deadly shootouts and FBI counterintelligence activities aimed at tweaking the organisation.
Afrofuturism:
The term Afrofuturism has its origins in African-American science fiction. Today it is generally used to refer to literature music and visual arts that explores the African-American experience and in the partial the role of slavery in that experience. 
Central to the concept of Afrofuturism is the science-fiction writers Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany and the Jazz musician Sun Ra, who created a mythical persona that merged science fiction with Egyptian mysticism. It is the otherness that is at the heart of Afrofuturism. 
Those inspired by Afrofuturism include the musician George Clinton, the artist Ellen Gallagher and the film director Wanuri Kahiu/
The term Afrofuturism has its origins in African-American science fiction. Today it is generally used to refer to literature music and visual art that explores the African-American experience and in particular the role of slavery in that experience.
Central to the concept of Afrofuturism is the science-fiction writers Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany and the Jazz musician Sun Ra, who created a mythical persona that merged science fiction with Egyptian mysticism. It is this otherness that is at the heart of Afrofuturism. 
Those inspired by Afrofuturism include the musician George Clinton, the artist Ellen Gallagher and the film director Wanuri Kahiu.