Portrayal Of Black Female Sexuality - 1599 Words

â€Å"They never seen black people kissing or making love on screen† (Lee ,1987).After decades of black love not being portrayed in the film industry, one young black director, by the name of Shelton Lee, also known as Spike Lee, brought this new visual aspect of African American love. Lee was the first to display black love, both figuratively and physically, on the big screen. It is not only the intimacy of black people that attract larger audiences but it is the inclusion of black female sexuality. The look of a woman through a male gaze quenches the subconscious thirst of a male’s fantasy. In Lee’s films, males portrayed on screen as multidimensional, and are defined by their unusual characteristics and attributes. The women, on the other†¦show more content†¦When she was faced with death, she put on her most formal wear and painted her face to await her murder by a man named, Jehu, who came to take her power. She can be described as a ruthless and c unning woman, in today’s society associated with sorcery and prostitution. She is known for wanting an abundance of sex, and using sex to get what she wants from a male figure. In many of Lee’s films the ‘Jezebel’ character is included more than once. In, She’s Gotta Have It, the main female character, Nola is a sexually prowess woman with multiple male sex partners. Nola is financially stable on her own, but she lacks much of promising future without the inclusion of a male figure. There are multiple problematic factors with this character starting with her fear of being deserted by a man. Nola has an extreme obsession with men, whenever she’s not alone, the viewer can assume she is with another man. This character is shown on the bed in 90 percent of the film, assuming this is only place she feels the most familiar and comfortable. In the film, Nola, paints women as being man crazy, insecure and sexually loose. The ‘Jezebel’ character in Lee’s Do the Right Thing, Tina, is slightly different from Nola. Tina is an actual girlfriend of the character, Mookie but initially all he wants to do with her is have sex. This here already portrays the women as only a sex object; he only wants her for sex. The ice cube scene makes it apparent the