Description: Beyond Blaxploitation is a groundbreaking scholarly anthology devoted to examining canonical and lesser-known films of the blaxploitation movement to demonstrate the richness, depth, and complexity of this intriguing period in motion picture history.
Brief description: Novotny Lawrence is an associate professor in the radio, television, and digital media department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is the author of Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre and the editor of Documenting the Black Experience: African American History, Culture, and Identity in Nonfiction Films.
Review Quotes: This book makes a critical contribution to an important and exciting new generation of scholarship on blaxploitation, a subject too long overlooked by historians and film scholars. A must-read for anyone interested in race and American cinema. - Cara Caddoo, assistant professor of history and media at Indiana University, Bloomington