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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Blaxploitation"”.
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The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement
… climate came together to produce blaxploitation. In three critical narratives it will focus on the production of Shaft, the success of American International Pictures, and patterns of exhibition and distribution of blaxploitation films across the country. Driven by economic need, …
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The Turning Point of Who Shall Be Master: Killer of Sheep, Naming, Gender, and the Gaze of African American Women
… directly responded to the then-popular Blaxploitation genre, holding a mirror up to post-Watts, 1970s America, while exposing and exploring gender and race issues. Moreover, intentionally or not, Burnett, with this film, effectively demonstrated the lack of recognition that Black women …
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Our Sunken Place: "Post-Racial" America in Jordan Peele’s Get Out
… film. Get Out both speaks to the tradition of Blaxploitation films and against normative forms of whiteness that have been reinforced by the horror genre. Lastly, my final chapter speaks to the Get Out’s engagement with post-Obama colorblind attitudes and the film's relationship with the "Black …
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He Thinks He's Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
… Society activists, Playboy fashion editors, and Blaxploitation film directors—show that the artistic and political appropriations over the course of the period changed as the images of black men in the media varied, but that they nevertheless had similar consequences. Though often celebrating the …
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Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture
… most successful albums, along with high-grossing blaxploitation films and black network television, gradually became permanent components of American popular culture. In the end, the broader cultural impact of funk, inasmuch as it gave rise to new musical genres, emerges as directly responsible …