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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Black studiesPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.Description: xv, 166 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780252033407 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 025203340X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252075483 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 025207548X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • "Baad bitches" & sassy supermamas [Cover title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N4 D86 2008
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-156) and index.

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.