Women of Blaxploitation How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture

Name: Women of Blaxploitation How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780786427444

ISBN-10: 0786427442

ISBN-13: 9780786427444

Edition: 2006

Authors: Yvonne D. Sims

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This critical study examines the ways in which the blaxploitation heroines of the early 1970s reshaped the presentation of African American actresses on screen and, to a certain degree, the perception of African American females in general. It discusses the social, political and cultural context in which blaxploitation films emerged. The work focuses on four African American actresses?Pam Grier, Tamara Dobson, Teresa Graves and Jeanne Belle?providing critical and audience response to their films as well as insight into the perspectives of the actresses themselves. The eventual demise of the blaxploitation genre due to formulaic plots and lack of character development is also discussed.…

Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 9/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction



Reshaping African American Femininity: Mammy, Aunt Jemima, Sapphire and Action Heroine



Cultivating the Seed



Here Comes the Queen



Call Me Cleo



Love That Woman and Watch the Dynamite



The End of Blaxploitation



Aliens, Terminators and Outlaws: The Mainstreaming of the Action Heroine



Metamorphosis of the Black Action Heroine


Epilogue


Selected Filmography


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index