Symbolic violence in social representations of blacks through American cinema , A reading between the past and the present

The study aimed to shed light on the social representations of blacks in the American cinema through various periods, whether in the past or even in the present.Indeed, it showed some models that presented blacks in the character of inferiority, directly or indirectly, through the roles assigned to them and also through the image they provide to more than 41 million black Americans.According to the paths that we propose in the study, it became clear to us the important number of social representations of blacks, which represent the alienation that blacks feel, as well as the huge amount of symbolic violence towards them and practiced through cinema, but it is presented in an implicit manner through cinema codes.