Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback

Also known as Der Pate des Black Cinema – Melvin Van Peebles und Sweet Sweetbacks Lied, Nacimiento de un héroe negro en el cine: Sweet Sweetback, Melvin Van Peebles: narodziny czarnej gwiazdy kina, Melvin Van Peebles: «Sweet Sweetback» – La nascita di un eroe nero al cinema, Sweet Black Film: The Birth of a Black Hero

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.