Title: "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Action and adventure films, African American women heroes in motion pictures, Blaxploitation films, Motion pictures, united states, African americans in motion pictures