Portland-State-University 2014-2015 Bulletin

BSt 425 Black Cinema: the 1970s

Examination of the treatment of Black themes, issues and characterization during the decade of the 1970s in the cinema industry. Particular attention will be focused on the genre of the blaxploitation film as an industry response to the rapidly shifting social and racial dynamics of American culture as the Civil Rights era wound down.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Prerequisite: upper-division standing.
  • Up one level
  • 400