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Who’s got the “Reel” power? The problem of female antagonisms in blaxploitation cinema [PDF]

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2012
Between 1973 and 1975, films starring Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson such as Cleopatra Jones (Jack Starrett, 1973), Coffy(Jack Hill, 1973) and Foxy Brown (Hill, 1974) introduced leading black women into the predominantly male blaxploitation scene as ...
Melissa DeAnn Seifert
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Django Unchained and the Neo-Blaxploitation Western

Iperstoria, 2013
Django Unchained’s treatment of slavery and race issues has polarized audiences, especially African-American audiences.[1] While Harvard professor and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Johannes Fehrle
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Historia kina nie musi być historią arcydzieł

Kwartalnik Filmowy, 2022
Książki Jacka Rokosza Stracone dusze (2017) oraz Nadzy i rozszarpani (2021) szczegółowo opisują historię amerykańskiego kina eksploatacji lat, odpowiednio, 1929–1959 i 1960–1980. Autor ukazuje kontekst społeczny, polityczny i kulturalny omawianego kina,
Grzegorz Fortuna Jr.
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‘A Whole Other World than What I Live in’: Reading Chester Himes, on Campus and at the County Jail

Humanities, 2023
This essay first briefly examines African American novelist Chester Himes’ genre-defying position as prison writer turned detective writer, whose influence is clear not only in the usual suspects such as Walter Mosley but also in the Blaxploitation films
Ed Wiltse
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Eugene Rivers and the responsibility of intellectuals

, 2022
Constellations, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 244-258, June 2022.
Lukas Slothuus
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African-American and Romani Filmic Representation and the ‘Posts’ of Post-Civil Rights and Post-EU Expansion

Critical Romani Studies, 2018
In this article I explore linkages between the evolution of African-American filmic representation and the patterns of Romani representation in films from Central and Southeast Europe (CSEE). More specifically, I use the 1970s Blaxploitation movement and
Sunnie Rucker-Chang
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Editorial [Issue 4]

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2012
For this, the fourth issue of Alphaville, we have opted for an open theme. Previous issues—dealing with topics as diverse as noteworthy trends in European cinema; space and time in film; and sound, voice and music in cinema, respectively—stemmed from ...
Stefano Odorico, Aidan Power
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Postindustrialny soul, czyli przestrzeń afroamerykańskiego getta w filmie

Kwartalnik Filmowy, 2012
Współczesne kino czarnych Amerykanów, począwszy od lat 70. po najbardziej aktualne produkcje, jest nierozerwalnie związane z powstaniem, rozwojem i ewolucją amerykańskich miast i śródmiejskich gett – przestrzeni zajmowanych przez określone grupy ...
Ewa Drygalska
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Dressing the Black Body. Mode, Hairstyle und Schwarzsein in den USA – von den 1970er-Jahren bis zu Barack Obama

Zeithistorische Forschungen, 2017
Conventional forms of African American activism and organization in the second half of the twentieth century have been the subject of academic research for quite some time, but less attention has been devoted to symbolic and body political forms of ...
Philipp Dorestal
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Quentin Tarantino : du cinéma d’exploitation au cinéma

Transatlantica, 2016
It is fairly obvious that Tarantino has contributed to making exploitation cinema, if not universally popular, at least acceptable to a wider audience than its initial niche fans.
Philippe Ortoli
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