After Do The Right Thing, black cinema could no longer be ignored or marginalized. Certainly, there were significant films by black filmmakers before 1989, but too many went unseen (Ganja and Hess, Killer of Sheep, Sugar Cane Alley) or were forced into the blaxploitation box where they could be bold and transgressive in terms of representation, but were trapped by the demands of their genre.
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