"Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas
Subtitle: Black Power Action Films (New Black Studies Series)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 21, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780252075483
Subjects: Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; Film & Video - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Women's Studies - General; Adventure films; African American women heroes in motion pictures; Blaxploitation films; History and criticism; United States
Description: This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialised bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity.