Postindustrialny soul, czyli przestrzeń afroamerykańskiego getta w filmie

• Authors: Ewa: Drygalska

Title variants

EN

POSTINDUSTRIAL SOUL OR THE SPACE OF AFRO-AMERICAN GHETTO IN FILM

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Contemporary Afro-American cinema, from the 1970s up to most recent productions, is irrevocably tied with the creation, development and evolution of American cities and inner-city ghettos – spaces occupied by certain ethnic groups. Drygalska tracks representations and images of such spaces in mainstream American cinema from the genre of blaxploitation to the new black realism. By placing the film in the socio-historical context, the author explores the problem of the origin of the ghetto and how it became an emblem of African-American culture in popular culture. Drygalska focuses on films such as: Cotton Comes to Harlem (dir. Ossie Davis), Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (dir. Melvin Van Peebles), Super Fly (dir. Gordon Parks, Jr.), Boyz N the Hood (dir. John Singleton) and the Menace II Society by the Hughes brothers.

Keywords

EN

Van Peebles Melvin; Davis Ossie Parks Jr; Gordon Singleton John; Hughes brothers; Afro-American cinema; inner-city ghettos; mainstream American cinema; blaxploitation; black realism; origin of the ghetto; Cotton Comes to Harlem; Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Super Fly; Boyz N the Hood; Menace II Society

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 79
• Pages: 120-138

Contributors

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Ewa: Drygalska