Blaxploitation Films (Pocket Essentials, 2001)

This was the first book I ever published. I hate it. I tried to be 'cool & hip' and ended up coming across like a total moron. Thankfully, I have a completely revised (and expanded) 2nd edition coming out in November 2009 which hopefully rectifies many of the stupid comments I made in the original.

That being said, this book is probably the most cited in academic papers of any of my research. (Go figure!) The irony being that this book was never sufficiently academic enough to be submitted for RAE consideration (nor was it ever intended as such), and yet, according the bibliometrics the REF may follow, due to its frequent citation, it seems to have accrued some academic value.


For those interested: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blaxploitation-Films-Pocket-Essentials-Mikel/dp/1903047587/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244711979&sr=8-6

It has been cited in:

• Novotny Lawrence (2007). Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre London: Routledge;
• Gerald A. Powell (2004) A Rhetoric of Symbolic Identity: An Analysis of Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Bamboozled. University Press of America;

The book is discussed/cited in the following articles:

• Thelma Willis Foote (2007) Hoax of the Lost Ancestor: Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman. Jump-Cut 49: http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc49.2007/WatermelonWoman/text.html;
• Mathias Hanf (2005) The Culture of Blaxploitation (this appears to be a self-published paper - perhaps a student essay - http://www.grin.com/e-book/46928/the-culture-of-blaxploitation);
• Stewart Home (2006) Rated X by an All-White Jury. Mute: Culture and Politics after the Net vol 2.11 http://www.metamute.org/en/rated_x_by_an_all_white_jury (Home correctly takes me to task for some of the juvenile and insipid comments I made in the book, and which hopefully I've rectified in my later research);
• Amanda Howell (2005) Spectacle, Masculinity and Music in Blaxploitation Cinema. Screening the Past 18: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr_18/AHfr18a.html;
• Jonathan Munby (2007). Signifying' Cinema: Rudy Rae Moore and the Quality of Badness. Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 11.3: 203-219;
• Gerald A. Powell (2005) Rhetoric of Identity: An Inquiry into Symbolic Syntax and Composition of Black Identity in Bamboozled. Journal of African American Studies Vol. 9.3: 46-53;

I've also found the book cited in the following student papers/dissertations:

• Matthew Tyler (2007). "They Call me MR. Tibbs!": The Changing Face of the Black American Male, On Screen, As a Result of the Civil Rights Movmement. University of Portsmouth (http://dissertations.port.ac.uk/185/01/TylerM.pdf)

And finally, in the blogsphere:

• Jan Bruun (2001) Cult Awareness. Hypertonia World Enterprises. http://home.online.no/~janbruun/archives/2001_11_01_archive
• Jimmy Green (nd. 2002/2?) Blacula. 70s Movie Rewind. http://70s.fast-rewind.com/

Recommended reading by www.blaxploitation.com

I'm sure there are more out there, but its a start. If anyone has any additional citations, please let me know.