Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)

03/16/2022 (FR) • 53m

Documentary, History

Overview

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

cinema on cinema

blaxploitation cinema

cinema history

usa cinema

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