'Baad Bitches' and Sassy Supermamas - Black Power Action Films

Klappentext This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial! sexual! and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies! masculinities! and femininities in early 1970s black action films! with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical! sexualized! subordinate positioning of women in low-budget blaxploitation action narratives as well as more seriously radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and The Spook Who Sat by the Door! in which black women are typically portrayed as trifling "bitches" compared to the supermacho black male heroes. The terms "baad bitches" and "sassy supermamas" signal the reversal of this positioning with the emergence of supermama heroines in the few black action films in the early 1970s that featured self-assured! empowered! and tough (or "baad") black women as protagonists: Cleopatra Jones! Coffy! and Foxy Brown. Zusammenfassung An incisive analysis of gender and race in classic blaxploitation films

Product details

• Authors: Stephane Dunn
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2008
• EAN: 9780252075483
• ISBN: 978-0-252-07548-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Series: New Black Studies Series; New Black Studies; New Black Studies Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV