Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas Black Power Action Films

Name: Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas Black Power Action Films
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ISBN: 9780252075483

ISBN-10: 025207548X

ISBN-13: 9780252075483

Edition: 2008

Authors: Stephane Dunn

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This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical, sexualized, subordinate positioning of women in low-budget blaxploitation action narratives as well as more seriously radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and The Spook Who Sat by the Door, in which black women are typically portrayed as trifling "bitches" compared to the supermacho black male heroes. The terms "baad bitches" and "sassy supermamas" signal the reversal of this…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Race, Gender, and Black Action Fantasy



The Pleasure of Looking: Black Female Spectatorship and the Supermama Heroine



Black Power and the New Baad Cinema



What's Sex and Women Got to Do with It? Sexual Politics and Revolution in Sweetback and The Spook



Race, Gender, and Sexual Power in Cleopatra Jones



Sexing the Supermama: Racial and Gender Power in Coffy and Foxy Brown


Afterword: Superbaad for the Twenty-First-Century Screen


Notes


Works Cited


Index