How has 'Black cinema' changed and developed since the 1950's

Black cinema has evolved significantly, continuously changing the socioeconomic and political situations of African Americans have been and are still changing over the past 50 years. At the same time the art of filmmaking has undergone a lot of changes as well, constantly refining and redefining itself in terms of technology and special effects. Black cinema from its early roots to the current day has always been more concerned about character study and development in its films, but this could be argued during the early stages of 'Black cinema'. Going back to when 'Black cinema' first came to light society was dominated by white people who were of a higher social and economic class and black people were inferior to them; this was portrayed during the early films were black people bullied into silence by white people.
       However since then 'Black cinema' had moved on from this a couple of years lateer, when the portrayal of 'Black people' had shifted slightly so black men in films had suits, middle class jobs and conventions that you would expect a white person to have, so it subverts the stereotypical black person at thte time, but despite this, black people were still represented as drunks that were illiterate and did not have an educational background. In comparison with a white person they were still second rate in society. This representation of black people still conformed to what people expected a black person to act at that time period, because of their idea of how a black person should act.
       Progressively though black peoples roles in cinema has changed for example a black teacher teaching a rowdy group of young white people subverts what you would expect of a black perosn, becasue black people were supposed to be illiterate and have no educational background, however it represents how socities views of black people have changed by allowing a black man to teach the next generation of white people, becasue he in a sense was a role model to the youn white people. The typical conventions of black men, were viloent, had guns and always got into fights, and even though detective films such as Bad Boys which had actors like Will Smith and Martin Lawerence even though they are still using violence it is justified violence to help society.