"Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas : Black power action films /
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"Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas : Black power action films /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunn, Stephane, 1967-
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
Series:New Black studies series.
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Access:Online version
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Race, gender, and Black action fantasy
  • The pleasure of looking : black female spectatorship and the supermama heroine
  • Black power and the new baad cinema
  • What's sex and women got to do with it? : sexual politics and revolution in Sweetback and The spook
  • Race, gender, and sexual power in Cleopatra Jones
  • Sexing the supermama : racial and gender power in Coffy and Foxy Brown
  • Afterword. Superbaad for the twenty-first-century screen.