Africa’s Image on American and Chinese Screens: Case Study of ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Operation Red Sea’

In the wave of industrialization and internationalization Chinese Film Industry, blockbuster ‘Operation Red Sea’ burst out as 2018’s revelation in terms quality standards visual effects. The movie starred a navy team, ‘Jiaolong’, made eight highly-trained well-armed commandos to protect overseas nationals, rescue hostages, handle terrorist organization involved nuclear weapons’ deals. However, Africa is featured film’s background story, warfare actions’ playground, displaying domestic world audience old made-up clichés blended with war, terrorism, piracy desert. Meanwhile, same year, Hollywood released ‘Black Panther’, which well story but that surprisingly overturned Hollywood’s century-old tradition picturing dark full political turmoil, wars, famine, diseases illegal migrations. It also downplayed Marvel’s obsession ‘White Super-heroism’. With regards these paradigms shifts, article, through comparative study two hits mentioned above, aims at highlighting media portrayal on American screens, digging motives behind upturn Africa’s narrative, identifying possible solutions for Industry improve its experience ‘African thematic movies’ while avoiding past mistakes. Keywords: Media Africa, African movies, Hollywood, film industry, Black Panther, Operation Sea.