"Rock-a-Bye, Baby!": Black Women Disrupting Gangs and Constructing Hip-Hop Gangsta Films

Type de ressource

Article de revue

Auteur/contributeur

Smith-Shomade, Beretta E. (Auteur)

Titre

"Rock-a-Bye, Baby!": Black Women Disrupting Gangs and Constructing Hip-Hop Gangsta Films

Résumé

This essay examines the cultural specificity of the gangster genre. In hip-hop gangsta films, the inclusion of black women as central to the gangster business not only transforms the gangster genre but, more important, adheres to black cultural norms. The films New Jack City, Sugar Hill, and Set It Off serve as case studies.

Publication

Cinema Journal

Maison d’édition

Michigan Publishing

Date

2003

Volume

42

Numéro

2

Pages

25-40

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2003.0004

URL

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/38302

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13/01/2022 16:23

ISSN

2578-4919

Titre abrégé

"Rock-a-Bye, Baby!"

Langue

Anglais

Catalogue de bibl.

Project MUSE

Référence

Smith-Shomade, B. E. (2003). « Rock-a-Bye, Baby! »: Black Women Disrupting Gangs and Constructing Hip-Hop Gangsta Films. Cinema Journal, 42(2), 25‑40. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2003.0004

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