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Kim, Jeongho. “Black Film Aesthetics: A Reading of Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 40.1 (2014): 25-44. Shange’s choreopoem is a kind of deeply political mode of theatrical expression. Her peculiar and conspicuous discursive strategy such as vernacular expression, resistance to normative language and story, and disruption of conventional narratives opens up the plurality of multi-layered meanings and thematic politics of the black feminism dramas, In the hands of Tyler Perry, shange’s feminist tone and tenet of gender equality and reproductive justice and sexual liberation are compromised and delivered seriously and effectively. Perry’s For Colored Girls narrative evolves from the traditional black story-telling style and black aesthetics. Perry’s film primarily reproduces rather than reduces negative representations of black women on-screen. Under Perry’s directorial eye, the end of this film more subtly shows a moralizing sermon and female resistance. (Chonbuk National University)