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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/10022| Title: | Blaxploitation films of the 1970s : |
| Other Titles: | Blackness and Genre |
| Authors: | Novotny, Lawrence Graham Hodges |
| Keywords: | Blaxploitation films—United States—History and criticism |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Description: | Since the development of the motion picture industry in the late 1800s, the medium has presented blacks in a manner that reflects their sociopolitical status in America. Considered inferior by the white majority, blacks were depicted as such in films. Early film titles, such as Pickaninnies Doing a Dance (1894), Dancing Dark Boy (1895), A Nigger in the Woodpile (1904), The Wooing and the Wedding of a Coon (1905), and For Massa’s Sake (1911), reinforced prevalent racist attitudes. These films, in addition to many others from the period, depict blacks as the objects of ridicule not to be taken seriously unless they are sacrificing themselves for their white masters |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10022 |
| ISBN: | 0-415-96097-5 |
| Appears in Collections: | African Studies |
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