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African American cinema
anti-heroes
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Bill Greaves
Black documentary
Black liberation
Black Nationalism
Black separatism
Buck and the Preacher
carceral capitalism
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Charley trilogy
close reading
critique
Django Unchained
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Exodusters
Franco Nero
Fred Williamson
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks Jr.
Idris Elba
Jeff Kanew
Jeymes Samuel
Jim Brown
John Ford
John Singleton
Joshua
L.A. Rebellion School
Legend of Nigger Charley
Mario Van Peebles
masculinity
Melvin Van Peebles
Nationtime
Posse
post-western
Quentin Tarantino
revisionist western
rodeo
Rosewood
Sergeant Rutledge
Sergio Corbucci
Sergio Leone
Sidney Poitier
Skin Game
social problem picture
Soul Soldiers
spaghetti western
Take a Hard Ride
The Harder They Fall
themes
Thomasine and Bushrod
trilogy westerns
Ving Rhames
Western all'Italiana
Western all’Italiana
Westerns
Westploitation
white supremacy
Woody Strode
Product details
- ISBN 9780252086977
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2023
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black westerns evolved and approached wide-ranging goals. Woody Strode’s 1950s transformation from football star to actor was the harbinger of hard-edged western heroes later played by Jim Brown and Fred Williamson. Sidney Poitier’s Buck and the Preacher provided a narrative helmed by a groundbreaking African American director and offered unconventionally rich roles for women. Mask moves from these discussions to consider blaxploitation westerns and an analysis of Jeff Kanew’s hard-to-find 1972 documentary about an all-Black rodeo. The book addresses how these movies set the stage for modern-day westploitation films like Django Unchained.
A first-of-its kind survey, Black Rodeo illuminates the figure of the Black cowboy while examining the intersection of African American film history and the western.
Mia Mask is a professor of film at Vassar College, where she holds the Mary Riepma Ross 1932 endowed chair of film. She has appeared on CNN's The Movies, the Smithsonian Channel, the Criterion Channel, and has provided commentary on National Public Radio. Her books include Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age and Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film.
