Word: sweetback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...that is the correct spelling. Sweetback, for short, is the mother of all blaxploitation movies. Everyone from Shaft to Superfly (and maybe even Ice-T) owes their style to Van Peebles' rendition of Sweetback...
...atmosphere is set in the opening credits. Sweetback is dedicated to "all the brothers and the sisters who have had enough of the man" and it stars "The Black Community...
Harvard Film Archive--Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song directed by Melvin Van Peebles at 7 p.m. $6.50. Paths of Glory directed by Stanley Kubrick...
Baadasssss, as in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which Melvin Van Peebles (Mario's father) made in 1971. Sex-sated and X-rated, Sweetback trumpeted the bustling era of blaxploitation films. Their heroes were no lilies of the field. They dealt drugs (Super Fly) or tracked down drug dealers (Shaft). Short on artistry but long on verve, these violent epics were significant for the same reason they remained, in every sense, a minority entertainment: they were movies made not only for blacks but, often, by them. African-American filmmakers had kicked their foot through the industry's back door...