š Considers Blaxploitation from the
perspective of class and racial
rebellion, genre – and Stickin’ it to the
Man
š Over 60 Blaxploitation films reviewed
and discussed
š Fully up to date, including Baadasssss!
and The Hebrew Hammer
š Sections include Blaxploitation horror
films, kung-fu movies, Westerns and
parodies
BLAXPLOITATION
FILMS MIKEL J. KOVEN
What is Blaxploitation? In the early 1970s a type of Mikel Koven considers Blaxploitation from
film emerged that featured all-black casts, really the perspective of class and racial rebellion,
cool soul, R’n’B and disco music soundtracks, genre — and Stickin’ it to the Man, with over
characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and 60 Blaxploitation films reviewed and discussed.
even bigger ’fros, and had some of the meanest, Sections include Blaxploitation horror films,
baddest attitudes to shoot their way across our kung-fu movies, Westerns and parodies and it
screens. is fully up to date, including Baadassss and The
More than that, for African-American audiences Hebrew Hammer and covers the deaths of Isaac
these films were an antidote to the sanitised ‘safe’ Hayes and Rudy Rae Moore.
images of blackness that Sidney Poitier and Bill
Cosby presented to America. These films depicted
a reality about the world which African-American £12.99 PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS
audiences could identify with, even if the stories AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2009
themselves were pure fantasy. 194 X 135mm
160pp + 8PP COLOUR
Mikel J. Koven is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film
RIGHTS: WORLD
Studies at the University of Worcester. He has published
ISBN: 978-1-84243-334-8
extensively on the topic of folklore and film and is the author of
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
(2006) and Film, Folklore and Urban Legends (2007).
www.kamerabooks.com/blaxploitation/
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