New Black Realism, Menace II Society, and A Call for a New Black Man

Featured Image: Menace II Society (1993), dir. Hughes Brothers, Caine (left) and O-Dog (right)

Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema
Pictured above: Caine and O-Dog
Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema
Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema
Credit: New Black Man, Routledge (2005)
Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema. Pictured above, Caine and his mentor’s son, Anthony.
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Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema
Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema
Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema
Credit: Menace II Society (1993), New Line Cinema

Works Cited

Bausch, Katharine. “Superflies into Superkillers: Black Masculinity in Film from Blaxploitation to New Black Realism.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 46, no. 2, 2013, pp. 257–276., doi:10.1111/jpcu.12025.

Boylorn, Robin M. “From Boys to Men: Hip-Hop, Hood Films, and the Performance of Contemporary Black Masculinity.” Black Camera, vol. 8, no. 2, 2017, p. 146., doi:10.2979/blackcamera.8.2.09.

Hughes, Allen. Menace II Society. New Line Home Video, 1993.

Neal, Mark Anthony. New Black Man. Routledge, 2005.

Shary, Timothy, and Melvin Donalson. Millennial Masculinity Men in Contemporary American Cinema. Wayne State University Press, 2013.Ch. 11, Inside Men, 223-242

Stam, Robert, and Toby Miller. Film and Theory: an Anthology. Blackwell Publishers, 2011.Ch 15, Manthia Diawara

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