Tryin to get over: Super fly, black politics, and post-civil rights film enterprise

Eithne Quinn

doi:10.1353/cj.0.0183

Tryin to get over: Super fly, black politics, and post-civil rights film enterprise

Eithne Quinn

English and American Studies

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Abstract

Super Fly was a landmark case of African American participation in majorrelease fi lmmaking. The fi lm's narrative about Harlem cocaine dealers dramatized black business dynamism operating inside white-dominated power structures, and this spoke refl exively to the circumstances of the fi lm's making. This essay offers a reappraisal of Super Fly and new perspectives on the blaxploitation cycle in light of post-civil rights opportunities and constraints. © 2010 by the University of Texas Press.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	86-105
Number of pages	19
Journal	Cinema Journal
Volume	49
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.0.0183
Publication status	Published - Dec 2010

Keywords

black film
race politics
cultural industries
black action films

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Tryin to get over: Super fly, black politics, and post-civil rights film enterprise

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