Baadasssss hustlers collect their Hollywood dues

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The National Film Theatre, London, will show a season of American films about blacks from August 3 1996. These include 'Sweetback's Baadassss Song', made by Melvin Van Peebles, which has not been distributed overseas. The film, described as exploitational, and over which Van Peebles' agent resigned, was accepted for showing at only two cinemas in the US. Such films were labelled as blaxploitation, a genre which disappeared in the mid 1970s.

Usage, Performances, African Americans in motion pictures, African Americans in movies

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Figs are not the only fruit

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Most of the UK's leading publishers already have a separate label under which they publish erotic fiction. This trend is now being followed by Chatto and Windus, one of the most respected publishers in the UK. This company plans to publish a series of erotic novellas from well-known writers including Ruth Rendell, Sally Beauman and AS Byatt. It hopes that this approach will allow erotic fictions to return to the mainstream literary world.

Publishing industry, Erotic literature

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Visions of redemption

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The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) should be reorganised, according to Nigel Wingrove, a distributor of 'sleaze' video films. He has for some years been fighting a legal battle against the BBFC in order to gain permission for release the film 'Visions of Ecstasy,' which was claimed to be blasphemous. The release of this film would have significant implications for the censorship of other films in the UK.

Interview, Censorship, Wingrove, Nigel

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