The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement

The direction of this dissertation is to focus on the relationship between Hollywood and African-Americans at the point where a fiscal crisis and social-political 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, yet explicitly tied to a political climate of black nationalism and a social structure which created large pockets of black film goers, blaxploitation is not only a creation of the historical moment, it is very much reflective of it.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Pierson, Eric Charles

Contributors dc:contributor

• Berry, William E.

• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9971162

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86623