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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Militant Blax
T2 - Screening Revolution in the Films of Oscar Williams, Christopher St. John, and Ivan Dixon
AU - Munby, Latimer Jonathan
PY - 2019/1/30
Y1 - 2019/1/30
N2 - This contribution covers overlooked entries in “Blaxploitation” cinema of the 1970s that took an overtly political stand against white racism, exploring their contradictory relationship to blaxploitation’s conventions and tropes (its apolitical themes, macho characters, and action-crime story-lines and aesthetics). In highlighting how these more militant films were distinctive formally and thematically for their nihilistic and death-bound understanding of resistance and revolt, this work also details the attendant struggle their directors had in gaining funding for their projects—including the experience of state interference in the making and exhibiting of their films.
AB - This contribution covers overlooked entries in “Blaxploitation” cinema of the 1970s that took an overtly political stand against white racism, exploring their contradictory relationship to blaxploitation’s conventions and tropes (its apolitical themes, macho characters, and action-crime story-lines and aesthetics). In highlighting how these more militant films were distinctive formally and thematically for their nihilistic and death-bound understanding of resistance and revolt, this work also details the attendant struggle their directors had in gaining funding for their projects—including the experience of state interference in the making and exhibiting of their films.
KW - African American Studies
KW - Film Studies
KW - Cultural Studies
KW - Critical Race Theory
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780814345481
SN - 9780814345498
SP - 101
EP - 119
BT - African American Cinema Through Black Lives Consciousness
A2 - Reid, Mark A.
PB - Wayne State University Press
CY - Detroit, Michigan
ER -