Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song (Motion picture).
Title:
Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song / Melvin Van Peebles and Jerry Gross present a Cinemation Industries release ; a Yeah production ; a film of Melvin Van Peebles ; written, composed, produced, directed and edited by Melvin Van Peebles.
Title from title frames. Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Niva Ruschell, Rheta Hughes, Mario Van Peebles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.
Contents:
Special features: Audio commentary from 1997 by Melvin Van Peebles -- Introduction by Van Peebles from 1997 -- New conversation between Mario Van Peebles and film critic Elvis Mitchell -- Interview from 1971 with Melvin Van Peebles on Detroit Tubeworks -- Episode of Black Journal from 1971 / featuring Van Peebles, and critics Clayton Riley, Francis Ward and A. Peter Bailey -- New conversation between scholars Gerald R. Butters Jr., Novotny Lawrence, and Amy Abugo Ongiri -- Trailer -- Excerpts from a 2004 interview with Van Peebles for the Directors Guild of America Visual History Program.
Summary:
"A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was Melvin Van Peebles's third feature, made after he walked away from a contract with Columbia Pictures in order to make his next film on his own terms. Acting as producer, director, writer, composer, editor, and star, Van Peebles created the prototype for what Hollywood would eventually co-opt and make into the blaxploitation hero: a taciturn, perpetually blank-faced performer in a sex who, who, when he's pushed too far by a pair of racist cops looking to frame him for a crime he didn't commit, goes on the run through a lawless underground of bikers, revolutionaries, sex workers, and hippies in a kill-or-be-killed quest for liberation from white oppression. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song's incendiary politics are matched by Van Peebles's revolutionary style, in which jagged jump cuts, kaleidoscopic superimpositions, and psychedelic sound design come together in a sustained howl of rage and defiance"--Container.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 1095 Melvin Van Peebles essential films
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1282183157
Locations:
UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.