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"Tryin' to Get Over": Super Fly , Black Politics, and Post–Civil Rights Film Enterprise

Author(s) -

Eithne Quinn

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

cinema journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1527-2087

pISSN - 0009-7101

DOI - 10.1353/cj.0.0183

Subject(s) - filmmaking , black power , dynamism , civil rights , narrative , white (mutation) , politics , power (physics) , political science , visual arts , art , media studies , humanities , sociology , law , literature , physics , biochemistry , chemistry , quantum mechanics , gene , movie theater

Super Fly was a landmark case of African American participation in major- release 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.

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