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From Sweetback to Super Fly : race and film audiences in Chicago's loop / Gerald R. Butters, Jr.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U74 B88 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butters, Gerald R., 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American theater--Illinois--Chicago.
- African American theater.
- Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago.
- Motion picture theaters.
- Motion picture audiences--Illinois--Chicago.
- Motion picture audiences.
- African Americans in motion pictures.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago.
- African Americans.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Race, civil rights, and Chicago's Loop, 1945-70
- Sweetback and the rise of black-themed films, 1970-71
- Blaxploitation, black-themed films, and film spectatorship, 1971-72
- Super fly and resistance to Blaxploitation, 1972
- Karate rape in Harlem, 1973
- The exorcist and the decline of the Loop as a first-run market, 1973-74
- The beginning of the end : Loop theaters under attack, 1975
- Conclusion : demolition and rebirth, 1976-
- Appendix A. Kuumba : principles for creativity and liberation
- Appendix B. Seating capacities for downtown movie theaters, 1972.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780826220363
- 0826220363
- OCLC:
- 880501005
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