Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture

by YvonneD.Sims (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

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  Examines the ways in which the blaxploitation heroines of the early 1970s reshaped the presentation of African American actresses on screen and, to a certain degree, the perception of African American females in general. This study discusses the social, political and cultural context in which blaxploitation films emerged.