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Blaxploitation Italian Style

2012
July 13, 2010, marked the death of director Luigi Scattini, the creator of the blaxploitation trilogy, La ragazza dalla pelle di luna (Moonskin, 1972), La ragazza fuoristrada (Off-Road Vehicle Girl, 1973) and Il corpo (The Body, 1974), that established Eritrean top model Zeudi Araya as an erotic icon in Italian culture.
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The Blaxploitation Buddy Film

2009
The villains in the 1974 Blaxploitation film Three the Hard Way (Gordon Parks, Jr.) are members of a latter-day Nazi group who plan to poison the nation’s water supply with a chemical lethal to blacks but harmless to whites. “Just like sickle cell anemia,” the toxin’s creator boasts, “this little mixture of mine is as lethal as cyanide, [but] will not ...
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Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription?

Cinema Journal, 2000
The intersection of racial identity and narrative structure in blaxploitation horror films produced a potential critique of both social and generic racism, as well as a significant variation in how the genre classically figures normality and monstrosity.
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Cleopatra Jones: Blaxploitation and Tactical Alliances with Shakespeare

2003
At first glance, Cleopatra Jones (1973) would seem to bear little resemblance to Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. This film, set primarily in Los Angeles, is historically and geographically distanced from both Shakespeare’s England and Cleopatra’s Egypt.
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How Black Women Survived Blaxploitation

This chapter explores how Black women suffer from the concept that does not receive enough direct attention in film studies – intersectionality – by virtue of serving as the canvas for frustrated Black male impotence in the face of structural and systemic barriers to Black power generally.
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