Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras av Odie Henderson

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<B>A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism</B><BR/> <BR/> In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles’s <I>Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song</I>, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parks’s <I>Shaft</I>, a studio-financed film with a killer soundtrack, were huge hits, making millions of dollars. <I>Sweetback </I>upended cultural expectations by having its Black rebel win in the end, and <I>Shaft</I> saved MGM from bankruptcy. Not for the last time did Hollywood discover that Black people went to movies too. The Blaxploitation era was born.<BR/> <BR/> Written by film critic Odie Henderson, <I>Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras</I> is a spirited history of a genre and the