Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema biography Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker

Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly’s groundbreaking biography reveals how this working-class boy from Manhattan’s Little Italy became one of our most acclaimed

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This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies—from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther—using the struggles and triumphs of the artists

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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema biography Bestselling author and award-winning filmmakerThe definitive account of Blaxploitation cinemathe freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genrefrom a distinctive voice in film history and criticism In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebless Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parkss Shaft, a