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x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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still image sti rdacontent |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
I. Pioneer to Precursor to Blaxploitation -- 1. The "Black Enough" Visual Aesthetic in Cotton Comes to Harlem / Vivian Halloran -- 2. Racial Exploitation in Watermelon Man: Contemporary Applications / Charles E. Wilson, Jr. -- 3. Sweetback in Chicago / Gerald R. Butters, Jr. -- II. The Canon and the Not So Canon -- 4. In the Beginning There Was Shaft / Eric Pierson -- 5. The Blood of the Thing (Is the Truth of the Thing): Viral Pathogens and Uncanny Ontologies in Ganja and Hess / Harrison M.J. Sherrod -- 6. A White Film for a Blaxploitation Audience? The Making and Marketing of Detroit 9000 / Novotny Lawrence -- 7. As Foxy as Can Be: The Melodramatic Mode in Blaxploitation Cinema / Joseph S. Valle -- III. Was, Is, or Isn't Blaxploitation -- 8. Stomping on Stepin Fetchit: Historicizing "Blackness" in African American Film Culture of the 1970s / Allyson Nadia Field -- 9. Norman It's Not about You: Decentering Black Gayness in Norman... Is That You? / Alfred L. Martin, Jr. -- 10. Making Exploitation Black: How 1970s "Blaxploitation" Discourse Marginalized Industry History and Constructed Black Viewers' Tastes / Laura Cook Kenna -- 11. From Harlem to Hollywood: The 1970s Renaissance and Blaxploitation / Walter Metz. |
| Summary |
"This volume is made up of eleven essays employing historical and theoretical methodologies in the examination of spectatorship, marketing, melodrama, the transition of novel to screenplay, and racial politics and identity, among other significant topics. The book fills a substantial gap that exists in the black cinematic narrative and, more broadly, in film history. Beyond Blaxploitation is divided into three sections that feature original essays on a variety of canonical blaxploitation films and others that either influenced the movement or in some form represent a significant extension of it. The first section titled, "From Pioneer to Precursor to Blaxploitation," centers on three films--Cotton Comes to Harlem, Watermelon Man, and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song--that ignited the African American film cycle. The second section, "The Canon and the Not so Canon," is dedicated to forging alternative considerations of some of the most highly regarded blaxploitation films, while also bringing attention to lesser-known films in the movement. The final section, "Was, Is, or Isn't Blaxploitation," includes four essays that offer significant insights on films that are generally associated with blaxploitation but contest traditional definitions of the movement. Moreover, this section features chapters that address industrial factors that led to the creation of blaxploitation cinema and highlight the limitations of the term itself."--Publisher's Web site. |
| Subject |
Blaxploitation films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Blaxploitation films. (OCoLC)fst00834235
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Lawrence, Novotny, 1973- editor.
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Butters, Gerald R., 1961- author.
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| ISBN |
9780814340769 (paperback) |
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0814340768 (paperback) |
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9780814340776 (ebook) |
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0814340776 (ebook) |
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