Portland-State-University 2015-2016 Bulletin

BSt 425U 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

upper-division standing.
  • Up one level
  • 400