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    Le documentaire culturel Sweet Black Film: The Birth of a Black Hero 2022 POSTER

    Le documentaire culturel Sweet Black Film: The Birth of a Black Hero

    2022

    French

    6.3

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    blaxploitation cinema

    cinema history

    cinema on cinema

    Documentary

    usa cinema

    Catherine Bernstein Catherine Bernstein Director Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson as Self Melvin Van Peebles Melvin Van Peebles as Self Christian Marin Christian Marin as Self Bill Duke Bill Duke as Self
    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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