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The Blaxploitation Horror Film - Adaptation, Appropriation and the Gothic (Paperback)
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The Blaxploitation Horror Film - Adaptation, Appropriation and the Gothic (Paperback)
Series: Horror Studies
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This book is a pioneering study of Blaxploitation horror films,
connecting them with both mainstream horror movies and classic
Gothic texts. The author argues that conventional horror films
adapt, while Blaxploitation horror films appropriate, the
archetypes of Gothic fiction - and rather than exploit, it is
argued that they function to satisfy Black audiences. Of the few
scholars who have given consideration to Blaxploitation horror
films, only occasional chapters have been devoted by them in
monographs focused on either Blaxploitation films or horror films.
In marked contrast, the present study gives a book-length
consideration to Blaxploitation horror films per se, demonstrating
how they engage both Gothic fiction and film, and issues of vital
significance to American society and culture in the 1970s. In this
important and innovative study, chapters explore the sociocultural
significance of the vampire, Frankenstein's monster, Jekyll/Hyde
and the werewolf, the zombie and the demon.
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