TY - BOOK AU - Henderson,Odie TI - Black Caesars and foxy Cleopatras: a history of blaxploitation cinema SN - 9781419758416 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Abrams Press KW - African Americans in motion pictures KW - Blaxploitation films KW - History and criticism KW - Film criticism KW - lcgft N1 - What Happened Before Cotton Came to Harlem? -- Ain't Now, but It's Gonna Be -- Stop! Or My Director Will Shoot!: A Hollywood Mystery -- "Soulsville," Shaft, and Long-Time Women -- Coming Back to Collect Some Dues -- A Side Hustle: The Case for UpTight -- The Citizen Kane of Blaxploitation -- Interview: A Chat About Blaxploitation Westerns and Buck and the Preacher -- Dracula Was a Redneck -- From the Asphalt Jungle to the Concrete Jungle -- What's Happening in the CLEAN World? -- Nurse Coffy and Cleopatra Jones -- Pimps Are Everywhere, Even on Sesame Street -- When Bond Met Blaxploitation -- Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss -- You Can't Judge a Movie by Its Color -- Once Again, Injustice for Bill Gunn -- Shaft in Africa... and on Television -- When Blaxploitation Spooked the Gov'ment -- Jim Kelly's Too Busy Lookin' Good -- Black Belts, Hard Ways, and Woof Tickets -- Interview: Exploring the Wild World of Genre Filmmaking with Producer Jeff Schechtman -- Foxy Brown, Foxier Fellini -- Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Lawsuit -- The Cosby-Poitier Trilogy I: Because I'm from Off the Corners -- Werewolf Breaks and Zombie Hit Men -- Make Yours a Happy Home -- Interview: A Millenial's Take on Blaxploitation Movies -- Pam, Pam, and More Pam -- The Crosby-Poitier Trilogy II: Biggie Smalls Is da Illest -- Colley High Harmony -- Dolemite Is His Name -- Django, Chained -- Blaxploitation Rides the Range -- I'm Mahogany, and You're NOTHING! -- A Side Hustle: I Didn't Know Where I Was Going To -- Joel Schumacher, Voice of Black America?! -- A Side Hustle: The Top Ten Best Blaxploitation Songs -- Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News N2 - "A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film history and criticism"-- ER -