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Author Dunn, Stephane, 1967-

Title "Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas : Black power action films / Stephane Dunn
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource
Series The new black studies series
New Black studies series.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-156) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Blaxploitation films -- United States -- History and criticism
Action and adventure films -- United States -- History and criticism
African American women heroes in motion pictures.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Action and adventure films
African American women heroes in motion pictures
Blaxploitation films
Actionfilm
Film.
Blaxploitation Film.
Frau.
Motiv (Film)
United States
USA
USA.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718413
ISBN 9780252091049
0252091043
1283986493
9781283986496
Other Titles "Baad bitches" & sassy supermamas