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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Pioneer to Precursor to Blaxploitation; 1. The "Black Enough" Visual Aesthetic in Cotton Comes to Harlem; 2. Racial Exploitation in Watermelon Man: Contemporary Applications; 3. Sweetback in Chicago; II. The Canon and the Not So Canon; 4. In the Beginning There Was Shaft; 5. The Blood of the Thing (Is the Truth of the Thing): Viral Pathogens and Uncanny Ontologies in Ganja and Hess; 6. A White Film for a Blaxploitation Audience? The Making and Marketing of Detroit 9000
  • 7. As Foxy as Can Be: The Melodramatic Mode in Blaxploitation CinemaIII. Was, Is, or Isn't Blaxploitation; 8. Stomping on Stepin Fetchit: Historicizing "Blackness" in African American Film Culture of the 1970s; 9. Norman ... It's Not about You: Decentering Black Gayness in Norman ... Is That You?; 10. Making Exploitation Black: How 1970s "Blaxploitation" Discourse Marginalized Industry History and Constructed Black Viewers' Tastes; 11. From Harlem to Hollywood: The 1970s Renaissance and Blaxploitation; Contributors; Film and Television Index; Subject Index