... racial grotesque animation black vernacular blaxploitation Disney ...

... Spike Lee Don Cheadle Black film blaxploitation Black Power ...

...Screenings Reviews of Black films, filmmakers, actors, and plays constitute the fourth section—Spike Lee's Bamboozled , blaxploitation movies, John Singleton’s Baby Boy , and Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle’s performance in a play by Suzan-Lori Parks. The final essay, on the documentary...

... This chapter focuses on Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin (1975) as an exercise in the racial grotesque. The film casts blackness as an absurd modality of critical dialogism with, among other things, the history of American animation, the New South ideal, vernacular cosmopolitanism, the blaxploitation...