It is the cost of doing business that affects, indeed, threatens the black presence on the screen. It's Friday 1982 Louis Gossett, Jr.
Critics disagree, although a few traits of black films seem characteristic.
Sometimes a so-called crossover movie finds an audience on both sides of the racial divide by drawing on a black cultural trait that speaks to black and white audiences. Sometimes a black-angled movie succeeds as a crossover because it successfully mingles cultures. And in almost any Paul Robeson or Josephine Baker film of the 1930s, the theme involves a poignant outreach across racial cultures.