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Penitentiary II
English Title: Penitentiary II
Poster ID: CL45333
Category: Movies
Year: 1980s
Actor / Director: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Peggy Blow, Malik Carter, Tony Cox, Ernie Hudson, Mr. T, Hawthorne James, dir. Jamaa Fanaka
Film Studio: MGM
Country: American
Film Country: American
Approximate Size 41 x 27 inches
Condition: Very Good
Price: $200

Jamaa Fanaka was a filmmaker who had considerable success in 1979 with “Penitentiary,” a feature-length movie he made while still in film school, but who claimed to have been blacklisted afterward for raising questions about the dearth of jobs for black directors in Hollywood. Mr. Fanaka was part of what film scholars called the L.A. Rebellion, a small group of black U.C.L.A. film school graduates who came of age in the late 1970s, near the end of the so-called blaxploitation era. The group's defining aesthetic was to move beyond pimp stereotypes and funk soundtracks in film portrayals of blacks.The group's defining aesthetic was to move beyond pimp stereotypes and funk soundtracks in film portrayals of blacks. -NY Times April 14, 2010

Keywords: Drama,Black Interest,Boxing,Jail,Prison,Black Directors