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Blaxploitation Films / by Koven, Mikel J.,author.(CARDINAL)421654;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156) and index.
Subjects: Blaxploitation films.; African Americans in motion pictures.; Sensationalism in motion pictures.; Motion pictures, American;
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Blaxploitation cinema : the essential reference guide / by Howard, Josiah.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 227) and index.Defining Blaxploitation films -- What's going on? -- Q & A : ten directors discuss their films. Paul Bogart -- Matt Cimber -- Larry Cohen -- Robert A. Endelson -- Jamaa Fanaka -- Jack Hill -- Jonathan Kaplan -- Arthur Marks -- Cirio H. Santiago -- Don Schain -- A-to-Z Blaxploitation filmography -- Bibliography -- Blaxploitation admat gallery.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Black people in motion pictures.; Blaxploitation films; Blaxploitation films;
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Black Caesars and foxy Cleopatras : a history of blaxploitation cinema / by Henderson, Odie,author.(CARDINAL)886133;
What Happened Before Cotton Came to Harlem? -- Ain't Now, but It's Gonna Be -- Stop! Or My Director Will Shoot!: A Hollywood Mystery -- "Soulsville," Shaft, and Long-Time Women -- Coming Back to Collect Some Dues -- A Side Hustle: The Case for UpTight -- The Citizen Kane of Blaxploitation -- Interview: A Chat About Blaxploitation Westerns and Buck and the Preacher -- Dracula Was a Redneck -- From the Asphalt Jungle to the Concrete Jungle -- What's Happening in the CLEAN World? -- Nurse Coffy and Cleopatra Jones -- Pimps Are Everywhere, Even on Sesame Street -- When Bond Met Blaxploitation -- Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss -- You Can't Judge a Movie by Its Color -- Once Again, Injustice for Bill Gunn -- Shaft in Africa... and on Television -- When Blaxploitation Spooked the Gov'ment -- Jim Kelly's Too Busy Lookin' Good -- Black Belts, Hard Ways, and Woof Tickets -- Interview: Exploring the Wild World of Genre Filmmaking with Producer Jeff Schechtman -- Foxy Brown, Foxier Fellini -- Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Lawsuit -- The Cosby-Poitier Trilogy I: Because I'm from Off the Corners -- Werewolf Breaks and Zombie Hit Men -- Make Yours a Happy Home -- Interview: A Millenial's Take on Blaxploitation Movies -- Pam, Pam, and More Pam -- The Crosby-Poitier Trilogy II: Biggie Smalls Is da Illest -- Colley High Harmony -- Dolemite Is His Name -- Django, Chained -- Blaxploitation Rides the Range -- I'm Mahogany, and You're NOTHING! -- A Side Hustle: I Didn't Know Where I Was Going To -- Joel Schumacher, Voice of Black America?! -- A Side Hustle: The Top Ten Best Blaxploitation Songs -- Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News."A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism"--
Subjects: Film criticism.; African Americans in motion pictures.; Blaxploitation films;
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How to eat your watermelon in white company (and enjoy it) [videorecording] by Angio, Joe.; Hehmeyer, Dick.; Solomon, Michael.; Van Peebles, Melvin,1932-; Breakfast at Noho (Firm); Home Vision Entertainment (Firm); IFC Productions (Firm); Image Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)328010;
Camera and sound, Joe Angio, Michael Solomon ; editor, Jane Rizzo ; music, Jeremy Parise.Narrator: Dick Hehmeyer.A tale of how a young black kid from Chicago, Melvin Van Peebles, ended up making one of the most controversial movies in American history, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the film that sparked the Blaxploitation era in Hollywood.Rating: Not rated.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation, enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Van Peebles, Melvin, 1932-; Van Peebles, Melvin, 1932-; African American motion picture producers and directors; Blaxploitation films.; African American motion picture producers and directors; Blaxploitation films.;
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Hollywood black : the stars, the films, the filmmakers / by Bogle, Donald,author.(CARDINAL)145033; Singleton, John,1968-2019,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)375064;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251) and index.The early years -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- The 1950s -- The 1960s -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- The 1990s -- The new millennium."The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows the changes in the film industry with the arrival of sound motion pictures and the Great Depression, when black performers such as Stepin Fetchit and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson began finding a place in Hollywood. More often than not, they were saddled with rigidly stereotyped roles, but some gifted performers, most notably Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939), were able to turn in significant performances. In the coming decades, more black talents would light up the screen. Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American to earn a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Carmen Jones (1954), and Sidney Poitier broke ground in films like The Defiant Ones and 1963's Lilies of the Field. Hollywood Black reveals the changes in images that came about with the evolving social and political atmosphere of the US, from the Civil Rights era to the Black Power movement. The story takes readers through Blaxploitation, with movies like Shaft and Super Fly, to the emergence of such stars as Cicely Tyson, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Whoopi Goldberg, and of directors Spike Lee and John Singleton. The history comes into the new millennium with filmmakers Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Ava Du Vernay (Selma), and Ryan Coogler (Black Panther); megastars such as Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Morgan Freeman; as well as Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, and a glorious gallery of others."--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Black people in motion pictures.; Black people in the motion picture industry.; Blaxploitation films.; Actors, Black.; African Americans in motion pictures.; African Americans in the motion picture industry.; African American actors.;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 19
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Crook manifesto : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.(CARDINAL)649885;
It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated and deadly. 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney's endearingly violent partner in crime. It's getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carney's tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Criminals; American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976; Receiving stolen goods; Blaxploitation films; African Americans; Sales personnel; Corruption; Families; Arson; Theft;
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Crook manifesto [sound recording] : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.(CARDINAL)649885; Graham, Dion,narrator.(CARDINAL)270848;
Read by Dion Graham.It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated and deadly. 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, and the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carney's endearingly violent partner in crime. It's getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hitmen. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A. and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carney's tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo has to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Sales personnel; Criminals; Corruption; Arson; American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976; Receiving stolen goods; Blaxploitation films; African Americans; Families; Theft;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 28
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Crook manifesto [audio-enabled device] : a novel by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.(CARDINAL)649885; Graham, Dion,narrator.(CARDINAL)270848; Playaway Digital Audio,issuing body.(CARDINAL)565887; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;
Read by Dion Graham.The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. Its 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. Its strictly the straight-and-narrow for him -- until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up his old police contact Munson, fixer extraordinaire. But Munson has his own favors to ask of Carney and staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated -- and deadly. 1973. The counter-culture has created a new generation, the old ways are being overthrown, but there is one constant, Pepper, Carneys endearingly violent partner in crime. Its getting harder to put together a reliable crew for hijackings, heists, and assorted felonies, so Pepper takes on a side gig doing security on a Blaxploitation shoot in Harlem. He finds himself in a freaky world of Hollywood stars, up-and-coming comedians, and celebrity drug dealers, in addition to the usual cast of hustlers, mobsters, and hit men. These adversaries underestimate the seasoned crook -- to their regret. 1976. Harlem is burning, block by block, while the whole country is gearing up for Bicentennial celebrations. Carney is trying to come up with a July 4th ad he can live with. ("Two Hundred Years of Getting Away with It!"), while his wife Elizabeth is campaigning for her childhood friend, the former assistant D.A and rising politician Alexander Oakes. When a fire severely injures one of Carneys tenants, he enlists Pepper to look into who may be behind it. Our crooked duo have to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent, and the utterly corrupted. CROOK MANIFESTO is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whiteheads kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time.Adult.Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; African Americans; American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976; Arson; Blaxploitation films; Corruption; Crime; Criminals; Receiving stolen goods; Sales personnel;
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Sweet Sweetbacks baadasssss song [videorecording] / by Peebles, Melvin Van; Chuckster, Simon,actor.; Dullaghan, John,actor.; Scales, Hubert,actor.; Van Peebles, Melvin,1932-2021director,screenwriter,producer,actor.(CARDINAL)714724;
Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Wesley Gale.A hustler is forced into a life on the run after he saves a Black Panther from racist cops.MPAA rating: Not rated.
Subjects: Racism; Action and adventure films.; Blaxploitation films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The black godfather [videorecording] by King, Damu.; Perry, Rod.; Sommerfield, Diane.; Witherspoon, Jimmy.; Cougnar Productions.; Xenon Pictures.;
Editor, Jim Christopher; music, Martin Yarbrough; music arr. by Phil Moore.Cast: Rod Perry, Damu King, Diane Sommerfield, Don Chastain, Jimmy Witherspoon.After a violent confrontation with a local mobster leaves a friend dead, hustler J.J. is taken under the wing of the local numbers king who teaches him how to dismantle the drug operation of the mobster.MPAA rating: R.DVD.
Subjects: African American; Feature films.;
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