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Author
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Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 2
Language
English
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"One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Summer by The Washington Post • TIME Magazine • NPR • The Los Angeles Times • USA Today • Vulture • Lit Hub • Kirkus Reviews • CrimeReads The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but also saw the rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows the changes in the film industry with the arrival of sound motion pictures and the Great Depression, when black performers such as Stepin Fetchit and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson began finding a place in Hollywood. More often than not,...
5) Shaft
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
John Shaft was indeed a shut-your-mouth detective to reckon with, a fact emphasized from the film's start by Isaac Hayes' Academy Award-winning Best Original Song and Oscar-nominated score. Richard Roundtree plays the smart, tough, confident private investigator whose hunt for a kidnapped woman puts him in the middle of feuding syndicates. Gordan Parks directs from a screenplay that Ernest Tidyman co-scripted from his own novel. John Shaft is an icon...
6) Coffy
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Coffy is a one-woman vigilante force, out to even the score with those that have hooked her sister on drugs. Using her feminine wiles (along with deadly weaponry), Coffy sets about riddling the streets of low-life drug dealers, pimps, deviants and society's scum.
7) Superfly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a...
8) Superfly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema—the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre—from 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 Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops and gets away, and Gordon Parks’s...
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