Reflections on blaxploitation : actors and directors speak / [interviewers] David Walker, Andrew J. Rausch, Chris Watson.

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TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780810867079
0810867079
9780810867321
081086732X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reflections on blaxploitation.DDC classification:

791.43/652996073 22

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PN1995.9.N4 R46 2009eb

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Contents:

Reflections onBlaxploitation; Contents; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: Ralph Bakshi; CHAPTER 2: Jim Brown; CHAPTER 3: Michael Campus; CHAPTER 4: Steve Carver; CHAPTER 5: Matt Cimber; CHAPTER 6: Greydon Clark; CHAPTER 7: Larry Cohen; CHAPTER 8: Don Pedro Colley; CHAPTER 9: Jamaa Fanaka; CHAPTER 10: Antonio Fargas; CHAPTER 11: Sid Haig; CHAPTER 12: Gloria Hendry; CHAPTER 13: Jack Hill; CHAPTER 14: Jim Kelly; CHAPTER 15: William Marshall; CHAPTER 16: Rudy Ray Moore; CHAPTER 17: Ron O'Neal; CHAPTER 18: Larry Spangler; CHAPTER 19: Glynn Turman; CHAPTER 20: Melvin Van Peebles; CHAPTER 21: Oscar Williams.

Summary: In the early 1970s, a new breed of film emerged that would completely change the way black people were presented in movies. With their afros picked to spherical perfection and their guns blazing, big bad soul brothers and super sexy sisters lit up movie theaters across the country. Never before had black men and women appeared on screen in quite this way. In time, these films would be called "blaxploitation." And while it has long been debated exactly which film launched the blaxploitation era, the financial success of Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Gordon Parks's S.

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In the early 1970s, a new breed of film emerged that would completely change the way black people were presented in movies. With their afros picked to spherical perfection and their guns blazing, big bad soul brothers and super sexy sisters lit up movie theaters across the country. Never before had black men and women appeared on screen in quite this way. In time, these films would be called "blaxploitation." And while it has long been debated exactly which film launched the blaxploitation era, the financial success of Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Gordon Parks's S.