Precious may be the precious darling of the Hollywood elite now, thanks in no small part to backing from media moguls Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, but not everyone is thrilled. Within the black community, a war is brewing between those who are satisfied with the present state of African-American cinema and those who denounce its current track. Many say that films like Precious, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Columbia adjunct professor Geoffrey Fletcher, and Perry’s Madea movies are important and real expressions of modern black culture.
