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Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films

2008 Stephane Dunn ;ISBN: 9780252033407 ;ISBN: 025203340X ;ISBN: 0252091043 ;ISBN: 9780252091049 ;ISBN: 025207548X ;ISBN: 9780252075483 ;EISBN: 0252091043 ;EISBN: 9780252091049 ;OCLC: 923496730 ;LCCallNum: PN1995.9.N4D86 2008

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  • Title:
    Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films
  • Author: Dunn, Stephane
  • Subjects: Action and adventure films-United States-History and criticism ; Adventure films ; African American women heroes in motion pictures ; African-Americans ; Blacks ; Blaxploitation ; Blaxploitation films ; Blaxploitation films-United States-History and criticism ; Cinema ; Cultural studies ; Film & Video ; Film Studies ; Gender roles ; History & Criticism ; History and criticism ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Sociology ; U.S.A ; United States ; Women
  • Description: This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical, sexualized, subordinate positioning of women in low-budget blaxploitation action narratives as well as more seriously radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and The Spook Who Sat by the Door, in which black women are typically portrayed as trifling "bitches" compared to the supermacho black male heroes. The terms "baad bitches" and "sassy supermamas" signal the reversal of this positioning with the emergence of supermama heroines in the few black action films in the early 1970s that featured self-assured, empowered, and tough (or "baad") black women as protagonists: Cleopatra Jones, Coffy, and Foxy Brown._x000B__x000B_Dunn offers close examination of a distinct moment in the history of African American representation in popular cinema, tracing its emergence out of a radical political era, influenced especially by the Black Power movement and feminism. "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas also engages blaxploitation's impact and lingering aura in contemporary hip-hop culture as suggested by its disturbing gender politics and the "baad bitch daughters" of Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones, rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim.
  • Publisher: Champaign: University of Illinois Press
  • Creation Date: 2008
  • Format: 192
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780252033407
    ISBN: 025203340X
    ISBN: 0252091043
    ISBN: 9780252091049
    ISBN: 025207548X
    ISBN: 9780252075483
    EISBN: 0252091043
    EISBN: 9780252091049
    OCLC: 923496730
    LCCallNum: PN1995.9.N4D86 2008
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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