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Although Lee's class is titled "Contemporary African American Cinema," the Film Archive has named its series "Black Cinema after Sweetback." The intimation is clear: modern Black film began in 1971 with Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song...
...Peebles. Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song was a success, but the director's later work has been ignored. Hollywood exppropriated his style but not his message, when it created the blaxploitation genre. It took a new wave of independent filmmakers to bring the real Sweetback back to cinema...
...film series "Black Cinema After Sweetback" recognizes this influence both in its title and in its format. The series began with Sweetback and will be moving to the blaxploitation films of the 70s and to the Black film renaissance of the 80s. Highlights include House Party (directed by Harvard graduate Reginald Hudlin) and several films...