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It was a rare treat to see a Black woman carrying an action movie rather than serving as sex object to a male action hero.
The revolutionary potential of the supermama flicks were compromised, however, by the low-budget caliber of production, the insistent drugs-and-crime formula, and the oversexualization of women characters that defined blaxploitation. Despite problems with the representations of Black women, the supermama films made money at the box office. Yet, what Hendry once called “the [B]lack renaissance,” with its rare women heroes, would disappear within just a few years amid the controversy over the Black stereotypes celebrated by blaxploitation.
Then came the supermama’s fullest resurrection, in director Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 Blaxploitation-esque—starring none other than Pam Grier herself. Grier plays an aging, still-lovely Black woman who takes on the FBI and a ‘70s-styled hustler , who are both trying to use her for their own ends. The film doesn’t copy Blaxploitation’s oversexualization and misogyny, but does temper the Black woman’s triumph by forcing Jackie to manipulate her heterosexual appeal in order to save herself.
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