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Beyond Blaxploitation
Edited by Novotny Lawrence and Gerald R. Butters Jr.
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Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.
Beyond Blaxploitation, the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation film, sustains the momentum that blaxploitation scholarship has recently gained, giving the films an even more prominent place in cinema history. This volume is made up of eleven essays employing historical and theoretical methodologies in the examination of spectatorship, marketing, melodrama, the transition of novel to screenplay, and racial politics and identity, among other significant topics. The book fills a substantial gap that exists in the black cinematic narrative and, more broadly, in film history.
Beyond Blaxploitation is divided into three sections that feature original essays on a variety of canonical blaxploitation films and others that either influenced the movement or in some form represent a significant extension of it. The first section titled, "From Pioneer to Precursor to Blaxploitation," centers on three films—Cotton Comes to Harlem, Watermelon Man, and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song—that ignited the African American film cycle. The second section, "The Canon and the Not so Canon," is dedicated to forging alternative considerations of some of the most highly regarded blaxploitation films, while also bringing attention to lesser-known films in the movement. The final section, "Was, Is, or Isn't Blaxploitation," includes four essays that offer significant insights on films that are generally associated with blaxploitation but contest traditional definitions of the movement. Moreover, this section features chapters that address industrial factors that led to the creation of blaxploitation cinema and highlight the limitations of the term itself.
Beyond Blaxploitation is a much-needed pedagogical tool, informing film scholars, critics, and fans alike, about blaxploitation's richness and complexity.
About the authors:
Novotny Lawrence is an associate professor in the radio, television, and digital media department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is the author of Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre and the editor of Documenting the Black Experience: African American History, Culture, and Identity in Nonfiction Films. Gerald R. Butters, Jr. is a professor of history at Aurora University. A Fulbright scholar, his previous books include From Sweetback to Superfly: Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop, Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915–1966, and Black Manhood on the Silent Screen. Dr. Butters has lectured internationally, including an address to the European Commission in Luxembourg.
Press Reviews:
This groundbreaking collection is a real contribution to film studies.
-W. W. Dixon
Lawrence and Butters have curated substantive, percipient essays that reveal just how underexplored the blaxploitation era has been in scholarship. Beyond Blaxploitation is unmatched in its originality—from an exploration of homophobia through the lens of the sitcom to an examination of blood and viral prejudice—and this outstanding collection proves that there is much more to learn about blaxploitation.
-Robin R. Means Coleman, Professor of Communication Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan
This book makes a critical contribution to an important and exciting new generation of scholarship on blaxploitation, a subject too long overlooked by historians and film scholars. A must-read for anyone interested in race and American cinema.
-Cara Caddoo, Assistant Professor of History and Media at Indiana University, Bloomington
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