National and racial changes in popular culture on example of American cinema

Abstract

The racial segregation was abolished in american law in 1960s, however its effects in public space are visible nowadays. It is about stereotypes and discrimination against national and racial minorities. It is present in cinematography among others by disproportion of allocation of film roles, way of showing characters and also by occurence like whitewashing or blackface minstrels. The purpose of this article is to show the changes, which took place in the last century. The research trial were 85 productions awarded American Academy Award in category “Best Picture”. The conducted analysis showed that in the history of American cinema, breakthrough moments in the field of national and racial transformations can be identified and the above-mentioned phenomena were included.