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Title:

Beyond blaxploitation / edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters, Jr.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Blaxploitation films--United States--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Lawrence, Novotny, 1973- editor.
Butters, Gerald R., 1961- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

11. From Harlem to Hollywood: The 1970s Renaissance and Blaxploitation / 1. The "Black Enough" Visual Aesthetic in Cotton Comes to Harlem / Walter Metz. 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 Rim 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.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

ISBN:

0814340768
9780814340769

OCLC:

(OCoLC)935989265

LCCN:

2016941943

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)