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- Title
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker: critical race politics and the transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles.
- Authors
Holtmeier, Matthew
- Abstract
This article argues that that transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles is crucial in ending the dearth in African American feature film production in the United States after Oscar Micheaux's The Betrayal (1948). By establishing himself as a global auteur, van Peebles uniquely navigates the film industry with his first three films and develops a critical race politics that questions the role of American exceptionalism in Hollywood. Rather than always being about entertainment, however, this strategy highlights the way in which van Peebles isolates the Achilles heel of any industry in order to force it to carry his message, whether that be studio-driven films, art cinema, or independent cinema.
- Subjects
MOTION pictures; PRACTICAL politics; AFRICAN American motion pictures; RACE; CIVIL rights movements
- Publication
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 2019, Issue 59, p1
- ISSN
0146-5546
- Publication type
Article