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Reflections on blaxploitation
actors and directors speak
By Walker, David & Watson, Chris & Rausch, Andrew J. & Watson, Christopher
- ISBN
- 978-0-81086-706-2
- Publisher
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 2009
Blaxploitation films were an outgrowth of the racial and political upheavals of the 1960s and offered black actors exposure they had not previously enjoyed. The first successful film in the cycle is generally considered to have been Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). Walker (ed., BadAzz MoFo magazine), Andrew J. Rausch (Making Movies with Orson Welles), and director Chris Watson collect variably e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
