Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)
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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.
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Cast
Sandra Nkake
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Melvin Van Peebles
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Max Van Peebles
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Marguerite Van Peebles
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Mike Sargent
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Mario Van Peebles
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Reginald Hudlin
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Sandra Rush
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Donna Dubrow
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Bill Duke
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Philip Hart
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Mandela Van Peebles
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