Black Cinema, in the aftermath of Spike Lee

Much is usually made about the absence of black cinema from the local/mainstream theaters and the only thing that is being released are Tyler Perry films but there is in fact a good number, and quality, of independent black films that have been coming out in the last few years. ‘New Black Cinema’ is in an odd purgatory of while not being as overtly self-conscious about race as Spike Lee (Medicine for Melancholy being the best example that I have listed), they still aren’t in a post-racial world where race doesn’t matter. So there is usually an odd confrontation of undeniable blackness that comes at some moment,...