"Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas : black power action films
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Black studies series.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 166 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-156) and index. |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008]
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| ISBN: | 9780252033407 (cloth : alk. paper) 025203340X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252075483 (pbk. : alk. paper) 025207548X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Race, gender, and Black action fantasy
- The pleasure of looking : black female spectatorship and the supermama heroine
- Black power and the new baad cinema
- What's sex and women got to do with it? : sexual politics and revolution in Sweetback and The spook
- Race, gender, and sexual power in Cleopatra Jones
- Sexing the supermama : racial and gender power in Coffy and Foxy Brown
- Superbaad for the twenty-first-century screen.