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- Mired in controversy as to whether its use of cartoonish black stereotypes made it racist, “Coonskin” was in fact trying to be a sharp satire on the popular blaxploitation genre.
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Later re-released under the titles Bustin' Out and Street Fight, Coonskin has since been re-appraised, recontextualizing the film as the condemnation of racism that the director intended, rather than a product of a racist imagination, as its detractors had claimed.
Its title was originally intended to break through racial stereotypes by its bluntness, but now the ads say the hero and his pals are out “to get the Man to stop calling them coonskin.” The movie’s original distributor, Paramount, dropped it after pressure from black groups.
Apr 27, 2008 · Mired in controversy as to whether its use of cartoonish black stereotypes made it racist, “Coonskin” was in fact trying to be a sharp satire on the popular blaxploitation genre.
Sep 11, 1975 · When first screened last November at the Museum of Modern Art, the movie “Coonskin” by Ralph Bakshi touched off a controversey that now—three weeks after it began appearing at two theaters...
This chapter focuses on Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin (1975) as an exercise in the racial grotesque. The film casts blackness as an absurd modality of critical dialogism with, among other things, the history of American animation, the New South ideal, vernacular cosmopolitanism, the blaxploitation film cycle, the cultural imperialism of Disney, and ...
Mar 13, 2015 · With its cast of rabbits, bears and foxes, “Coonskin” parodies “Song of the South,” a movie informally banned in the North but still revived below the Mason-Dixon line.
Jun 26, 2008 · On “Coonskin’s” release in 1975, Time magazine critic Richard Schickel dismissed both the film and the surrounding controversy: “No one who does not wear white sheets in public could...
