Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s write by Novotny Lawrence. This book was released on 2007-12-12. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines a number of blaxploitation films – including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Blacula (1972), and The Mack (1973) – and illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre.
Blaxploitation Films
Blaxploitation Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blaxploitation Films write by Mikel J. Koven. This book was released on 2010-12-01. Blaxploitation Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fully updated to include Baadassss and The Hebrew Hammer and to cover the deaths of Isaac Hayes and Rudy Rae Moore In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts; really cool soul, R 'n' B, and disco soundtracks; characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and even bigger 'fros; and had some of the meanest, baddest attitudes to shoot their way across the screen. An antidote to the sanitized "safe" images of blackness that Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby presented to America, these films depicted a reality about the world which African-American audiences could identify with, even if the stories themselves were pure fantasy. This guide reviews and discusses more than 60 Blaxploitation films, considering them from the perspectives of class and racial rebellion, genre, and Stickin' it to the Man. Subgenres covered include Blaxploitation horror films, kung-fu movies, westerns, and parodies.
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s write by Novotny Lawrence. This book was released on 2007-12-12. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation began to change in the 1950s and 1960s when performers such as Dorothy Dandridge and Sidney Poitier were cast in more positive roles. These performers paved the way for the black exploitation or blaxploitation movement, which began in 1970 and flourished until 1975. The movement is characterized by films that feature a black hero or heroine, black supporting characters, a predominately black urban setting, a display of black sexuality, excessive violence, and a contemporary rhythm and blues soundtrack. Blaxploitation films were made across varying genres, but the questionable elements of some of the pictures caused them to be referred to as "blaxploitation" films with little or no regard given to their generic categorization. This book examines how Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Blacula (1972), The Mack (1973), and Cleopatra Jones (1973) can be classified within the detective, horror, gangster, and cop action genres, respectively, and illustrates the manner in which the inclusion of "blackness" represents a significant revision to the aforementioned genres.
Beyond Blaxploitation
Beyond Blaxploitation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Blaxploitation write by Novotny Lawrence. This book was released on 2016-11-28. Beyond Blaxploitation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beyond Blaxploitation is a much-needed pedagogical tool, informing film scholars, critics, and fans alike, about blaxploitation's richness and complexity.
Blaxploitation Cinema
Blaxploitation Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blaxploitation Cinema write by Josiah Howard. This book was released on 2008. Blaxploitation Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dazzling, highly stylised, excessively violent and brimming with sex, blaxploitation films enjoyed a brief but memorable moment in motion picture history. Never before, and never since, have so many African-American performers been featured in films, not in bit parts, but in name-above-the title starring roles. Here's a new and appreciative look back at a distinctly American motion picture phenomenon, the first truly comprehensive examination of the genre, its films, its trends and its far-reaching impact, covering more than 240 Blaxploitation films in detail. This is the primary reference book on the genre, covering not just the films' heyday (1971-1976) but the entire decade (1970-1980). Includes: film posters and ads
