Portland-State-University 2024-2025 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 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 concluded.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Any BSt course or permission from the instructor.
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