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"Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas : Black power action films / Stephane Dunn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunn, Stephane, 1967-
- Series:
- New Black studies.
- New black studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blaxploitation films--United States--History and criticism.
- Blaxploitation films.
- Action and adventure films--United States--History and criticism.
- Action and adventure films.
- African American women heroes in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- "Baad bitches" & sassy supermamas
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
- Summary:
- Blaxploitation action narratives as well as politically radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song typically portrayed black women as trifling "bitches" compared to the supermacho black male heroes. But starting in 1973, the emergence of "baad bitches" and "sassy supermamas" reversed the trend as self-assured, empowered, and tough black women took the lead in the films Cleopatra Jones, Coffy, and Foxy Brown. Stephane Dunn 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. Recognizing a distinct moment in the history of African American representation in popular cinema, Dunn analyzes how it emerged from a radical political era influenced by the Black Power movement and feminism. Dunn also engages blaxploitation's legacy in contemporary hip-hop culture, as suggested by the music's disturbing gender politics and the "baad bitch daughters" of Foxy Brown and Cleopatra Jones, rappers Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim.
- Contents:
- front cover
- copyright
- TOC
- intro
- chapter 1
- notes
- bibliography
- index
- back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-156) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252091049
- 0252091043
- 9781283986496
- 1283986493
- OCLC:
- 654312756
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