Black Caesars and foxy Cleopatras : a history of blaxploitation cinema /

A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema, the freewheeling, often shameless and wildly influential genre, from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, Odie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Abrams Press, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • What Happened Before Cotton Came to Harlem?
  • Ain't Now, but It's Gonna Be
  • Stop! Or My Director Will Shoot!: A Hollywood Mystery
  • "Soulsville," Shaft, and Long-Time Women
  • Coming Back to Collect Some Dues
  • A Side Hustle: The Case for UpTight
  • The Citizen Kane of Blaxploitation
  • Interview: A Chat About Blaxploitation Westerns and Buck and the Preacher
  • Dracula Was a Redneck
  • From the Asphalt Jungle to the Concrete Jungle
  • What's Happening in the CLEAN World?
  • Nurse Coffy and Cleopatra Jones
  • Pimps Are Everywhere, Even on Sesame Street
  • When Bond Met Blaxploitation
  • Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss
  • You Can't Judge a Movie by Its Color
  • Once Again, Injustice for Bill Gunn
  • Shaft in Africa... and on Television
  • When Blaxploitation Spooked the Gov'ment
  • Jim Kelly's Too Busy Lookin' Good
  • Black Belts, Hard Ways, and Woof Tickets
  • Interview: Exploring the Wild World of Genre Filmmaking with Producer Jeff Schechtman
  • Foxy Brown, Foxier Fellini
  • Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Lawsuit
  • The Cosby-Poitier Trilogy I: Because I'm from Off the Corners
  • Werewolf Breaks and Zombie Hit Men
  • Make Yours a Happy Home
  • Interview: A Millenial's Take on Blaxploitation Movies
  • Pam, Pam, and More Pam
  • The Crosby-Poitier Trilogy II: Biggie Smalls Is da Illest
  • Colley High Harmony
  • Dolemite Is His Name
  • Django, Chained
  • Blaxploitation Rides the Range
  • I'm Mahogany, and You're NOTHING!
  • A Side Hustle: I Didn't Know Where I Was Going To
  • Joel Schumacher, Voice of Black America?!
  • A Side Hustle: The Top Ten Best Blaxploitation Songs
  • Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News.