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After saving a young militant's life from the police, a black male prostitute goes on the run through LA, dodging the man in an effort to escape to Mexico & freedom. Tune in as Chris talks Blaxploitation, archetypes, & DIY as the LSCE screens the 1971 Melvin Van Peebles cult classic "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Join us! Check us out at LSCEP.com Like, Review, Subscribe! Works Cited: Alexander, George. Why We Make Movies : Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema . 1st ed. New York: Harlem Moon, 2003. Angio, Joe. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It) . Breakfast at Noho, LLC. 2005. 85 Mins. Blu Ray. Bates, Courtney E. J. “Sweetback’s ‘Signifyin(g)’ Song: Mythmaking in Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.” Quarterly review of film and video 24, no. 2 (2007): 171–181. Bogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films . 5th Ed. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2016. James, Darius. That’s Blaxploitation! : Roots of the Baadasssss ’Tude (rated X by an All-Whyte Jury) . New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995. Loeb, Anthony, John Cassavetes, Joan. Tewkesbury, Steve. Shagan, Bill Butler, Buck. Henry, William. Friedkin, and Melvin Van Peebles. Filmmakers in Conversation . Chicago, Ill: Columbia College, 1982. Lott, Chris. “Reading Myth in Sweetback: Middling Strategies Between the Ideal and the Exploitative.” Film Matters 4, no. 4 (2013): 26–32. Riley, Clayton. “What Makes Sweetback Run?” New York Times . May 9th, 1971. Pg. 161 Totaro, Donato. “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin van Peebles, 1971).” Offscreen 22, no. 11 (2018). Accessed on 2/3/22 from https://offscreen.com/view/sweet-sweetbacks-baadasssss-song-melvin-van-peebles-1971 Wiggins, Benjamin. “‘You Talkin’ Revolution, Sweetback’: On Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and Revolutionary Filmmaking.” Black camera : the newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives 4, no. 1 (2012): 28–52.
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