Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films

by Stephane Dunn

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025207548X
• ISBN13: 9780252075483
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"