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.
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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.