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...Film Archive on the evening of April 25. I am speaking, of course, of legendary African-American author, composer, and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Of his formidable body of work, Van Peebles is best known for his seminal 1971 film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song,” of which he was director, actor and writer...
Although Lee's class is titled "Contemporary African American Cinema," the Film Archive has named its series "Black Cinema after Sweetback." The intimation is clear: modern Black film began in 1971 with Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song...
Sweetback performs for a white audience, and they love it--until he challenges their authority. The story's the same for Van Peebles. Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song was a success, but the director's later work has been ignored. Hollywood exppropriated his style but not his message, when it created the blaxploitation genre. It took a new wave of independent filmmakers to bring the real Sweetback back to cinema...
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