Blaxploitation Films

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Blaxploitation Films
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mikel Koven
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 135,Width 194
Category/GenreFilm guides and reviews
ISBN/Barcode 9781842433348
ClassificationsDewey:791.4375
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
Imprint Kamera Books
Publication Date 22 September 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In the early 1970s, a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts, really cool soul, R'n'B and disco soundtracks, characters sporting big guns, big dashikis and even bigger 'fros and some of the meanest, baddest attitudes ever to shoot their way across the big screen. Blaxploitation Films considers this genre from the perspective of class and racial rebellion with over 60 blaxploitation movies reviewed and discussed. Fully up to date, it includes Baadasss and The Hebrew Hammer and discusses the deaths of Isaac Hayes and Rudy Rae Moore.

Author Biography

Mikel J. Koven is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film Studies at the University of Worcester. He has published extensively on the topic of folklore and film and is the author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (2006) and Film, Folklore and Urban Legends (2007).