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William Novotny Lawrence examines a number of blaxploitation films - including 'Cotton Comes to Harlem' (1970), 'Blacula' (1972), and 'The Mack' (1973) - and illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre.
During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin{u2019} and jivin{u2019} caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femini…
This book examines a number of blaxploitation films - including Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Blacula (1972), and The Mack (1973) - and illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre. "During the early years of the motion picture ind…