This is a list of mostly U.S. American 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
- Imitation of Life (1934)
- Black Girl[1] (1972)
- Cooley High (1975)
1980-1989
- The Color Purple[2] (1985)
- Polly[2] (1989)
1990-1999
- Flirting[2] (1991)
- Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.[2][3][1] (1992)
- Sarafina![2] (1992)
- Crooklyn[2][3][1] (1994)
- Alma's Rainbow[4] (1994)
- Girls Town (1996)
- Eve’s Bayou[2][3][1] (1997)
- Cinderella (1997)
- Drylongso[5] (1998)
2000-2009
- Bring It On (2000)
- Love & Basketball[2] (2000)
- Our Song[3][1] (2000)
- The Cheetah Girls (2003)
- Akeelah and the Bee[2][3] (2006)
- Half Nelson[6] (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[7][3] (2015)
- Flowers[8] (2016)
- The Girl with All the Gifts[9] (2016)
- Queen of Katwe[10] (2016)
- For Ahkeem[11] (2017)
- I Am Not a Witch[12] (2017)
- Everything, Everything (2017)
- Roxanne, Roxanne[10] (2017)
- Jinn[3][1](2018)
- Mahalia Melts in the Rain (2018)
- Night Comes On[3] (2018)
- Rafiki[12] (2018)
- Solace[13] (2018)
- The Hate U Give[14] (2018)
- A Wrinkle in Time[10] (2018)
- Jezebel[13] (2019)
- Little[15] (2019)
- Pick (2019)[16]
- Rocks[17] (2019)
- Premature[13] (2019)
- Selah and the Spades[13] (2019)
- See You Yesterday[18] (2019)
- The Sun Is Also a Star[10] (2019)
- Atlantics[9] (2019)
2020
- Miss Juneteenth[19] (2020)
- Cuties[20] (2020)
- Pillars[20] (2020)
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Finding Our Own Coming-Of-Age Narratives". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "The 11 Most Essential Movies That Showcase The Beauty And Nuance Of Black Girlhood On The Big Screen". shadowandact.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- ^ Tinubu, Aramide. "'Alma's Rainbow': Dr. Ayoka Chenzira Reflects On The Return Of Her Glittering Coming-Of-Age Film". Blavity News & Entertainment. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Price, Yasmina. "Drylongso: A Refuge of Their Own". Current. The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Folkes, Sula Douglas (2020-11-28). "Is this the Golden Age for films about Black Girlhood?". We Are Parable. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ^ a b c d Ndilula, Gloria. "Fillmmaker reimagines black girlhood". Los Angeles Loyolan. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ "'For Ahkeem' Is THE Millennial Documentary On Black Girlhood - JetMag.com". www.jetmag.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
- ^ a b "A Guide to Essential, Underrated, and Flat-Out Extraordinary Films by Black Women Directors". Tribeca. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
- ^ a b c d "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.
- ^ Mike Adler, "With PICK, Scarborough filmmaker shows a choice black girls face". Toronto.com, November 15, 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.