Claudine at 50: Rom-Com Countered Blaxploitation Norm
Coming out during the heart of Blaxploitation, Claudine offered Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones in a heartfelt rom-com.
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Odie Henderson with Black Caesars And Foxy Cleopatras - A History of Blaxpoitation Cinema
<i>Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras</i> is a definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism<br/><br/>In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles’s <i>Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song</i>, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parks’s <i>Shaft</i>, a studio-financed film w...
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