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Article: Fear of a blaxploitation monster: blackness as generic revision in AIP's Blacula

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May 1, 2009
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Keywords: Blacula, blaxploitation, Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1970s Hollywood cinema, the horror genre, Dracula, American International Pictures (AIP), African Americans

Introduction

The black exploitation or blaxploitation movement (1970-75) began as a result of a combination of three main social, political and economic factors: the Civil Rights Movement, the historic misrepresentation of blacks in motion pictures and Hollywood's financial trouble. Significantly, while Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and swarms of blacks and liberal whites protested against America's racial discrimination in the streets during the 1960s, performers like Sidney Poitier and Jim Brown fought the battle for equality ...

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