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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Great Post, Aaron

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  Monday, September 3, 2012 — 9:53 pm

  interaction, and possibility. Reifying hip hop as black circumscribes those possibilities, even as it continues ...
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  Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay

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  Rachel Raimist University of Alabama

  September 04, 2012

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  Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay independent hip-hop hip-hop feminism Hip-Hop Cinema Curator's Note In Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop Jeff Chang writes, “Hip-hop began as an early ‘70s youth street culture in New York City, w ...
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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  narrative

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  Anthony C. Bleach Kutztown University

  Wednesday, September 5, 2012 — 2:25 am

  "realness" to the threat of possible co-optation by uptown monied interests. Could this be why these early ...
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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s?

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  September 05, 2012

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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s? youth culture transnational radicalism race popular culture multiracial kung fu hip hop cowboy colonialism breaking breakdance b-boy 1970s Curator's Note We should consider popular 1970s films as pref ...
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  Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness

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  David Z. Morris University of South Florida

  September 06, 2012

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  Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness nationalism Japan Hip Hop Cinema Week Fascism Curator's Note Kyouki no Sakura (2002) is a hugely compelling film from Japan, directed by Sonoda Kenji from a novel by Hikita Kunio. The focus of the film is a t ...
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  Re: Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay

  Changing frm rich text editor & new browser. Yes, I can comment!

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  Rachel Raimist University of Alabama

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 2:09 pm

  Yes, I absolutely agree that Ava’s narrative films open up rich possibilities for analysis both ...
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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Thanks

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 9:08 pm

  hip-hop as black circumscribe the possibilities collaboration and interaction and represent it as ...
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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  In short . .

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 9:18 pm

  I think black rap artists have also been part of writing this history.  It's possible to read that ...
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  Re: Sonoda Kenji's The Sakura of Madness

  Kuzoku

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  David Z. Morris University of South Florida

  Friday, September 7, 2012 — 1:45 am

  United States- but they represent a huge possibility for an indie distributor, because they're both ...
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  Re: Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s?

  More of a suggestion than a redefinition...

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  Friday, September 7, 2012 — 11:57 pm

  that we look farther afield in locating the limits and possibilities of hip-hop cinema. Ghost Dog, ...

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