{"product_id":"reflections-on-blaxploitation-actors-and-directors-speak","title":"Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak (Hardcover, 248 pages) – Scarecrow Press, 2009. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eIn the early 1970s, a new breed of film emerged that would completely change the way black people were presented in movies. With their afros picked to spherical perfection and their guns blazing, big bad soul brothers and super sexy sisters lit up movie theaters across the country. Never before had black men and women appeared on screen in quite this way. In time, these films would be called \"blaxploitation.\" And while it has long been debated exactly which film launched the blaxploitation era, the financial success of Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Gordon Parks's Shaft helped open the flood gates for the more than 200 films that are now considered blaxploitation.Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak is a collection of interviews with many of the men and women who defined the genre. In candid conversations, some of the most important figures of the era describe what it was like to work on these films and what impact they had on American culture. Among those interviewed are such icons as Jim Brown (Slaughter), Antonio Fargas (Foxy Brown), Gloria Hendry (Hell Up in Harlem), Jim Kelly (Black Belt Jones), Ron O'Neal (Superfly), William Marshall (Blacula), and Fred Williamson (Hammer). Also featured here are some of the most influential names behind the scenes, including Larry Cohen (Black Caesar), Oscar Williams (Five on the Black Hand Side), and Melvin Van Peebles. This volume also includes a filmography of every known (or rumored) blaxploitation film, including their availability on VHS and DVD.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   “The lengthy filmography here should prove useful. Recommended.” ―Library Journal           About the Author   David Walker was born in or near Wilmington, North Carolina, the son of a slave father and a free black mother (thus, under the laws of slavery, he was born free). the year of his birth is uncertain, although the most convincing recent research contends that it was 1796 or 1797. By his own account in the Appeal, Walker left Wilmington as a young man and wandered around the United States, residing for an unspecified period in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1825, he turned up as a used-clothes dealer in Boston, where he would spend the rest of his abbreviated life. He died suddenly in 1830.                                           ","brand":"David Walker, Andrew J. Rausch, Chris Watson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070222618858,"sku":"9780810867062","price":51.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/715VmmbG1KL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781250939","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/reflections-on-blaxploitation-actors-and-directors-speak","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}