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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback

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Director
Catherine BernsteinMartine Delumeau
Cast
Sandra Nkake as Self - Narrator (voice) Melvin Van Peebles as Self Max Van Peebles as Self Marguerite Van Peebles as Self Mike Sargent as Self Mario Van Peebles as Self
Crew
Jérôme Colin — Director of Photography Benoît Alavoine — Editor
Synopsis

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

Mood & Themes
cinema on cinemablaxploitation cinemacinema historyusa cinema
Key Collaborators
Catherine Bernstein Director Martine Delumeau Director Jérôme Colin Director of Photography Benoît Alavoine Editor
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