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From Sweetback to Super Fly : race and film audiences in Chicago's loop /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butters, Gerald R., 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2015]
Subjects:
African American theater > Illinois > Chicago.
Motion picture theaters > Illinois > Chicago.
Motion picture audiences > Illinois > Chicago.
African Americans in motion pictures.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Race, civil rights, and Chicago's Loop, 1945-70
  • Sweetback and the rise of black-themed films, 1970-71
  • Blaxploitation, black-themed films, and film spectatorship, 1971-72
  • Super fly and resistance to Blaxploitation, 1972
  • Karate rape in Harlem, 1973
  • The exorcist and the decline of the Loop as a first-run market, 1973-74
  • The beginning of the end : Loop theaters under attack, 1975
  • Conclusion : demolition and rebirth, 1976-
  • Appendix A. Kuumba : principles for creativity and liberation
  • Appendix B. Seating capacities for downtown movie theaters, 1972.