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Black box theater
Black box theater: a simple, unadorned flexible performance space with black walls, a flat floor, movable seating, and no fixed stage; also called a studio theater. Configurable as proscenium, thrust, or arena per production; rooted in 1960s experimental theater.
Black Boy
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth is a 1945 memoir by Richard Wright about growing up in the Jim Crow South; it sold 400,000 copies and became a foundational text of African-American autobiography.
Black British art
Black British art is visual art made in Britain by artists of African, Caribbean, Asian, and Middle Eastern and North African descent, named as a field in the 1980s.
Black British Theatre Awards
Black British Theatre Awards (BBTAs), UK theatre awards founded in 2019 by Solange Urdang and Omar F. Okai celebrating Black performers and creatives; seventh ceremony held 2025 at the Piccadilly Theatre; 2026 ceremony cancelled and the company entered liquidation.
Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット)
Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット) is a Dengeki Bunko light novel by Shiden Kanzaki and Saki Ukai about Rentaro Satomi and Enju Aihara fighting the Gastrea in post-apocalyptic Tokyo; a 2014 anime followed, and the series rebooted as New World Order in 2026.
Black Butler (黒執事)
Black Butler (黒執事, Kuroshitsuji) is Yana Toboso's Victorian dark fantasy manga serialized in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy since 2006, following demon butler Sebastian Michaelis and twelve-year-old earl Ciel Phantomhive; over 36 million copies, six anime series, musicals, and a live-action film.
Black Cake (TV series)
Black Cake is a 2023 Hulu drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Marissa Jo Cerar from Charmaine Wilkerson's 2022 novel, produced by Harpo Films and Kapital Entertainment, starring Mia Isaac, Chipo Chung, Adrienne Warren, and Ashley Thomas; cancelled in 2024.
Black Canadian literature
Black Canadian literature, also called African Canadian literature, is the body of writing by people of African descent in Canada, published for over two hundred years.
Black Canary
Black Canary is a DC Comics superheroine held by Dinah Drake (debut Flash Comics #86, 1947) and her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance, a martial artist with the ultrasonic Canary Cry, member of the Justice Society, Justice League, and Birds of Prey.
Black Cannon Incident (黑炮事件)
The Black Cannon Incident (黑炮事件) is a 1986 Chinese satirical film, Huang Jianxin's debut, adapted from Zhang Xianliang's novella; a lost chess piece triggers suspicion of engineer Zhao Shuxin, starring Liu Zifeng, Golden Rooster Best Actor winner.
Black Cat (Marvel Comics)
Black Cat (Felicia Hardy) is a Marvel Comics cat burglar and antihero, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #194 (July 1979) by Marv Wolfman and Keith Pollard. Known for feline agility, a bad luck aura, and an on-off romance with Spider-Man; stars in solo series from 2019 and 2025.
Black Cat (ブラックキャット) (manga)
Black Cat (ブラックキャット) is Kentaro Yabuki's 2000-2004 Weekly Shonen Jump manga in 20 volumes about assassin Train Heartnet, who leaves Chronos to become a bounty hunter; adapted into a 24-episode 2005 TBS anime.
Black Cat, White Cat
Black Cat, White Cat (Crna mačka, beli mačor) is Emir Kusturica's 1998 Romani comedy set on the Danube, winner of the Venice Silver Lion for Best Director and his follow-up to Underground.
Black Celebration
Black Celebration is Depeche Mode's fifth studio album, released 17 March 1986 on Mute/Sire, produced with Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones in Berlin and London; all songs by Martin Gore, UK chart peak 4, singles Stripped, A Question of Lust, A Question of Time.
Black Christmas (1974 film)
Black Christmas (1974) is a Canadian horror film directed by Bob Clark, written by Roy Moore, starring Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder; a sorority-house slasher that prefigured Halloween and founded the slasher genre.
Black Christmas (2006 film)
Black Christmas (Black X-Mas) is Glen Morgan's 2006 slasher remake of Bob Clark's 1974 film, starring Katie Cassidy and Michelle Trachtenberg; it added a Billy Lenz backstory, grossed $21.5 million worldwide, and scored 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Black Christmas (2019 film)
Black Christmas (2019) is a Blumhouse horror film directed by Sophia Takal, co-written with April Wolfe, starring Imogen Poots and Cary Elwes; the second remake of the 1974 slasher, released December 13, 2019, grossing $10.4M US.
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー)
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is Yūki Tabata's fantasy manga about Asta, a magicless boy with anti-magic aiming to become Wizard King. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2015, moved to quarterly Jump GIGA in 2023, ended with chapter 392 on May 1, 2026; 392 chapters, 38 volumes, 24 million copies.
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) (TV series)
Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is the TV anime of Yūki Tabata's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga about Asta and Yuno; 170 episodes aired 2017-2021 on TV Tokyo, with a film in 2023 and a second season set for October 2026.
Black Coal, Thin Ice (白日焰火)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (白日焰火, "Daylight Fireworks") is Diao Yinan's 2014 Chinese neo-noir crime film starring Liao Fan and Gwei Lun-mei; it won the 64th Berlinale Golden Bear and Silver Bear for Best Actor and grossed over 100 million RMB in China.
Black Coffee (DJ)
Black Coffee (Nkosinathi Innocent Maphumulo, born 1976) is a South African house DJ and producer, founder of Soulistic Music, 2022 Grammy winner for Subconsciously, known for one-handed DJing and Afropolitan house.
Black comedy
Black comedy, also called dark comedy, is a genre of comedy that finds humor in morbid, grotesque, or calamitous subjects such as death, violence, and other taboo topics.
Black Country Communion
Black Country Communion is an English-American hard rock supergroup formed in 2009 by Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham, and Derek Sherinian with producer Kevin Shirley, named after the West Midlands Black Country, with five studio albums (2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2024).
Black Country, New Road
Black Country, New Road is an English experimental rock band formed in 2018. The group is known for its blend of post-punk, math rock, and klezmer influences.
Black Crab (film)
Black Crab (Svart krabba) is a 2022 Swedish dystopian action thriller directed by Adam Berg, adapted from Jerker Virdborg's 2002 novel, starring Noomi Rapace as soldier Caroline Edh skating across a frozen archipelago on a Netflix mission film released March 18, 2022.
Black Dagger Brotherhood
Black Dagger Brotherhood: J.R. Ward's #1 New York Times bestselling paranormal romance series of vampire warriors in Caldwell, New York; Dark Lover (2005) opens it, with spin-offs and a Passionflix adaptation.
Black Day (블랙데이) (South Korea)
Black Day (블랙데이) is South Korea's unofficial April 14 observance for singles who received nothing on Valentine's Day or White Day, marked by eating jajangmyeon, wearing black, and drinking black coffee; it emerged in the 1990s.
Black Death (film)
Black Death (2010) is a UK-German medieval horror film directed by Christopher Smith, written by Dario Poloni, starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, and Carice van Houten; a monk guides knights to a plague-spared village in 1348.
Black Decade literature
Black Decade literature (العشرية السوداء) is the Algerian fiction written during and after the civil war of the 1990s, which killed more than 150,000 people.
Black Dog (Led Zeppelin song)
"Black Dog" is a 1971 song by Led Zeppelin, the opening track of their untitled fourth album, built on a stop-start riff in mismatched meters and a US top 15 single.