Black Cult Media

Catalog description

When people (academics usually) write about cult movies they are typically talking about films like Rocky Horror Picture Show or Casablanca or The Big Lebowski. Rarely, if ever, are Coming to America or The Color Purple or Friday-films with predominantly Black casts and seemingly marketed toward Black audiences-also considered within the canon of cult. This kind of exclusion begs the central question of the course: What is Black Cult Media? (PMA-HTC)