Research Catalog

Title

Beyond blaxploitation / edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters, Jr.

Publication

• Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Butters, Gerald R., 1961-
• Lawrence, Novotny, 1973-

Description

x, 262 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Series Statement

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Uniform Title

Contemporary approaches to film and media series.

Subjects

• Blaxploitation films
• Blaxploitation films > United States > History and criticism
• United States
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: I. Pioneer to Precursor to Blaxploitation -- 1. The "Black Enough" Visual Aesthetic in Cotton Comes to Harlem / Vivian Halloran -- 2. Racial Exploitation in Watermelon Man: Contemporary Applications / Charles E. Wilson, Jr. -- 3. Sweetback in Chicago / Gerald R. Butters, Jr. -- II. The Canon and the Not So Canon -- 4. In the Beginning There Was Shaft / Eric Pierson -- 5. The Blood of the Thing (Is the Truth of the Thing): Viral Pathogens and Uncanny Ontologies in Ganja and Hess / Harrison M.J. Sherrod -- 6. A White Film for a Blaxploitation Audience? The Making and Marketing of Detroit 9000 / Novotny Lawrence -- 7. As Foxy as Can Be: The Melodramatic Mode in Blaxploitation Cinema / Joseph S. Valle -- III. Was, Is, or Isn't Blaxploitation -- 8. Stomping on Stepin Fetchit: Historicizing "Blackness" in African American Film Culture of the 1970s / Allyson Nadia Field -- 9. Norman It's Not about You: Decentering Black Gayness in Norman... Is That You? / Alfred L. Martin, Jr. -- 10. Making Exploitation Black: How 1970s "Blaxploitation" Discourse Marginalized Industry History and Constructed Black Viewers' Tastes / Laura Cook Kenna -- 11. From Harlem to Hollywood: The 1970s Renaissance and Blaxploitation / Walter Metz.

Call Number

Sc E 17-181

ISBN

• 9780814340769
• 0814340768

LCCN

2016941943

Title

Beyond blaxploitation / edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters, Jr.

Publisher

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Lawrence, Novotny, 1973- editor.

Butters, Gerald R., 1961- author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-181