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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)

March. 16,2022
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6.3
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In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

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BootDigest
2022/03/16

Such a frustrating disappointment

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Actuakers
2022/03/17

One of my all time favorites.

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Platicsco
2022/03/18

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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Baseshment
2022/03/19

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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