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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

   Thanks, Aaron, for the generous comment. I guess what I meant was not to try to completely (re)define hip-hop cinema as exclusively a vehicle for struggle. Rather, I hoped to highlight some ways of considering other kinds of hip-hop cinema, beyond what s ...
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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

  You're absolutely right to point out the blackening of hip hop culture over the last 30 years, Aaron. What's at stake is an interesting question, especially given the way that so many of the serious younger heads continue to go back to these fil ...