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Title Statement | Black Caesars and foxy Cleopatras: a history of Blaxploitation cinema / Odie Henderson. |
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Author | Henderson, Odie |
Publication | New York: Abrams Press,[2024]©2024 |
Extent of Item | 292 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781419758416 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07202822 |
Contents | Prologue --1970 : what will it be in '70? --1971 : How it got done in '71 --1972 : what did they do in '72? --1973 : plenty to see in '73 --1974 : much to adore in '74 --1975 : eaten alive in '75 --1976-1978 : when Blaxploitation learned its fate. |
Summary | "In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parks's Shaft, a studio-financed film with a killer soundtrack, were huge hits, making millions of dollars. Sweetback upended cultural expectations by having its Black rebel win in the end, and Shaft saved MGM from bankruptcy. Not for the last time did Hollywood discover that Black people went to movies too. The Blaxploitation era was born. Written by film critic Odie Henderson, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited history of a genre and the movies that he grew up watching, which he loves without irony (but with plenty of self-awareness and humor). Blaxploitation was a major trend, but it was never simple. The films mixed self-empowerment with exploitation, base stereotypes with essential representation that spoke to the lives and fantasies of Black viewers. The time is right for a reappraisal, understanding these films in the context of the time, and exploring their lasting influence"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | African Americans in motion pictures |
African Americans in the motion picture industry | |
Black people in motion pictures | |
Motion pictures--History--United States | |
Race in motion pictures | |
Blaxploitation films--History and criticism--United States | |
By Genre | Film criticism |