Talk:List of Afrofuturist films

Afrofuturism in film
This article was created as Afrofuturism in film on January 17, 2018 and was moved to List of Afrofuturist films on December 10, 2020. Pageviews analysis should encompass this older article title. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 16:06, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Blade? really?
having a black main character in a speculative fiction movie does not make a movie afrofuturist. making a speculative fiction movie in an african country does not make said movie afrofuturist. 2804:388:D034:6E9:0:3F:87F5:E501 (talk) 14:55, 28 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Reliable sources have called Blade Afrofuturist. For example, this, says, "According to comic book historian Adilifu Nama, 'Afrofuturism creates a space in which blackness is equated with futurism, cybernetics and super-science. All of these ideas undermine the trope of the urban, or the subservient, or the criminal.' With that in mind, it’s hard to overstate the significance of Wesley Snipes's rip-roaring turn as the eponymous Blade, a human-vampire hybrid who becomes a protector of the mortal race by slaying evil vampires in increasingly spectacular fashion." Sounds like it is about the black protagonist undermining certain tropes. We use reliable sources for listing. We as editors cannot include or exclude listings based on our opinions. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 15:14, 28 October 2022 (UTC)


 * If you're referring to Black Panther, there are abundant reliable sources talking about it as an Afrofuturist film. There's even an entire book focused on that angle: Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness. Erik (talk &#124; contrib) (ping me) 15:19, 28 October 2022 (UTC)