The Blaxploitation Horror Film

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A comparative analysis of how mainstream and Blaxploitation horror films interpret and adapt classic Gothic tales.  
This book puts blaxploitation horror films such as Blacula in conversation with both mainstream horror and classic Gothic stories. Jamil Mustafa argues that mainstream horror films adapt while blaxploitation horror films appropriate the vampire, the Frankenstein monster, the demon, the zombie, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the werewolf for their unique audiences and purposes. Ultimately, he reveals how blaxploitation films revise both mainstream films by Universal Pictures and Hammer Film Productions as well as their shared original source material not merely to exploit but to satisfy Black audiences in ways the originals did not. Jamil Mustafa is professor of English and director of literature and language in the Department of English Studies at Lewis University.