Thursday, October 28, 2010

Black Women representations

I believe that it is possible for a filmmaker to represent Black women as sex workers in a way that is cinematically transformative. What comes to my mind is having a statement on Black sex workers by having a sex worker as the main character in a film to make a statement on them as a whole. By this I mean that the director of such a film should have a headstrong, intelligent, and dominant highly sexualized Black female character. By doing this, you are proving that her sexuality is put aside and you realize her as the intelligent and headstrong human being that she is. Just because she is highly sexualized does not mean that she has to be a caricature, but can be a full-fledged character. Although I cannot think of any examples of this, I still believe that it is possible to have a character that that is transformative yet still realistic. The character would have to undergo a radical transformation throughout the film yet still retaining the qualities that make her strong in the first place. I think that it is possible to use a sex worker as a character to make a statement on sex workers and Black women as a whole.

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