A History of Blackness in American Cinema at MoMA – Hyperallergic The series Making Faces on Film gathers daring and singular films about being black in the United States, from 1913 to today.

Get Out is hardly the first film to satirize or critique simplistic treatments of race and racism in cinema. As the Museum of Modern Art will show in a series of screenings organized in conjunction with the British Film Institute and the Studio Museum in Harlem, the histories of mainstream, independent, and experimental cinema are full of examples of characters and stories that have both shaped and challenged conventional constructions of blackness.

Body and Soul. 1925. | Directed by Oscar Micheaux

Hallelujah. 1929. | Directed by King Vidor

Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. 1946. | Directed by Spencer Williams

No Way Out. 1950. | Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Stormy Weather. 1943. | Directed by Andrew L. Stone

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