Beyond blaxploitation /

Beyond blaxploitation / edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters, Jr. - x, 262 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm. - Contemporary approaches to film and media series . - Contemporary approaches to film and media series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Beyond Blaxploitation,' the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation films, sustains the momentum that blaxploitation scholarship has recently gained, giving the films an even more prominent place in cinema history. This volume is made up of eleven essays employing historical and theoretical methodologies in the examination of spectatorship, marketing, melodrama, the transition of novel to screenplay, and racial politics and identity, among other significant topics. In doing so, the book fills a substantial gap that exists in the black cinematic narrative and, more broadly, in film history.

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Blaxploitation films--History and criticism.
Performing Arts.
Performing Arts.

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