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The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement

Pierson, Eric Charles

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Title
The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement
Author(s)
Pierson, Eric Charles
Issue Date
2000
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Berry, William E.
Department of Study
Communications
Discipline
Communications
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
The direction of this dissertation is to focus on the relationship between Hollywood and African-Americans at the point where a fiscal crisis and social-political climate came together to produce blaxploitation. In three critical narratives it will focus on the production of Shaft, the success of American International Pictures, and patterns of exhibition and distribution of blaxploitation films across the country. Driven by economic need, yet explicitly tied to a political climate of black nationalism and a social structure which created large pockets of black film goers, blaxploitation is not only a creation of the historical moment, it is very much reflective of it.
Graduation Semester
2000
Type of Resource
text
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