From Sweetback to Super Fly
Subtitle: race and film audiences in Chicago's loop
By: Gerald R. Butters, Jr
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780826220363
Subjects: Motion picture audiences; Race relations; African Americans in motion pictures; Motion picture theaters; African American theater; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-240) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Race, civil rights, and Chicago's Loop, 1945-70; title: Sweetback and the rise of black-themed films, 1970-71; title: Blaxploitation, black-themed films, and film spectatorship, 1971-72; title: Super fly and resistance to Blaxploitation, 1972; title: Karate rape in Harlem, 1973; title: The exorcist and the decline of the Loop as a first-run market, 1973-74; title: The beginning of the end : Loop theaters under attack, 1975; title: Conclusion : demolition and rebirth, 1976-; title: Appendix A. Kuumba : principles for creativity and liberation; title: Appendix B. Seating capacities for downtown movie theaters, 1972.