The Blending of African Heritage with Modern Technologies to Design a Futuristic Reality An Analytical Study of Scenic Designs and Costumes for ”The Black Panther” Movie

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Decor Department,Faculty of Fine arts,Alexandria university,Egypt

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"The Black Panther" movie is managed to achieve the most difficult cinematic equation,which was both public and critical success.Director Ryan Coogler made adventure and suspense a general framework for the events to shed light on many contemporary social and political issues that classified the movie as one of the best comic superhero movies.
The makers of the movie especially the director,made a challenge by presenting an exceptional movie that balances artistic pleasure and intellectual value,without disturbing the classification of it as one of the movies based mainly on visual dazzling. One of the most prominent factors that characterized the movie was the design of the spatial environment of events,It’s a fictional city called Wakanda,which is technologically advanced and located in the picturesque nature of Africa continent, perhaps it was not a real city,but production designer Hannah Beachler and fashion designer Ruth Carter,relied on very real tribes and cultures across Africa continent to represent the various peoples that are part of the Wakanda nation,and this has contributed to enriching visual content and providing a unique cinematic image of a balance between dazzling and nature without a breach of nature inherent characteristic of the peoples of the continent related to history and fine detail African heritage.

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Journal of Design Sciences and Applied Arts
Volume 2, Issue 1
January 2021
Pages 244-257

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