Stereotypes In Black Panther

The Black Panther is a Marvel Studios film that was released in 2018. This movie is about a man named T’Challa who is named king, of an African nation called Wakanda, after the death of his father. T’Challa is exposed to an herb that makes his strength and agility like no one had ever seen before. T’Challa created the title “Black Panther” to help protect Wakanda and his people from danger. After the Black Panther was released, audiences started talking about how this was the first “superhero” that was played by a African American actor. The Black Panther was released almost three decades after the first superhero, Superman, was created (Bucciferro). The most recent film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, took it a step further by making the

The recently released film Black Panther has brought forth conversation for the first African American superhero as the main character of a movie (Bucciferro). In the article, “Representations of Gender and Race in Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther: Disrupting Hollywood Tropes,” the author talks about how much the Black Panther is the only superhero movie to be directed by an African American man which also stars the first superhero character. Majority of the other characters in the movie are also African American due to the setting being in an African American country of “Wakanda” (Bucciferro). Due to the movie being released during a critical time of struggles related to the Civil Rights movement in the United States, the Black Panther is one of the most successful marvel films to date (Bucciferro). This film is the first superhero film to be nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Motion Picture of the Year (Bucciferro). The movie symbolizes the inequalities and struggles of people color (Bucciferro). This made the film watchers notice the change from the typical representations of superhero’s from the normal gender and race stereotypes (Bucciferro). Along with changes in stereotypes for the African American community, it was also a creative milestone in the film industry (Bucciferro). The Black Panther symbolically addressed the identities of people of color and the

The author states that the audience recognizes the representation of the African American culture that is imputed into the film (Jiaxi). “The Black Panther was also nominated for three Oscar Awards that include Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score,” Jiaxi tells us. The article also explains that the theme of the film inspired African American audiences when they saw the film and the way that their culture was depicted (Jiaxi). “The purpose of the theme is to achieve liberation and social dignity for the African American community,” states Jiaxi. A claim was made that the movie banished white supremacy by selecting the role of the hero to be played by an African American man