Coffy (1973)

Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 6:01 a.m.

A LA nurse turns shotgun wielding vigilante as she goes undercover to take down a network of pimps and drug pushers who victimized her younger sister. Tune in as Chris talks Jack Hill, Pam Grier, & codeswitching as the LSCE screens the 1973 cult classic \u201cCoffy.\u201d Join Us!\nCheck us out at LSCEP.com\nLike, Review, Subscribe!\nWorks Cited:\nBogle, Donald. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. 5th Ed. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2016.\nDixon, Wheeler Winston. \u201cFilmmaking \u2018for the Fun of It\u2019: An Interview with Jack Hill.\u201d Film criticism 29, no. 3 (2005): 46\u201359.\nEbert, Roger. Coffy. www.RogerEbert.comAccess 2/15/2022\nHiggins, Bill. \u201cInside Moves: Hill's Karma: Third Time's a Charm.\u201d Variety, Mar 08, 1999. 7,\nhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/illinoisstate.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/inside-moves-hills-karma-third-times-charm/docview/1401413704/se-2?accountid=11578 (accessed February 14, 2022).\nJames, Darius. That\u2019s Blaxploitation!\u202f: Roots of the Baadasssss \xa0\u2019Tude (rated X by an All-Whyte Jury). New York: St. Martin\u2019s Griffin, 1995.\nQuinn, Eithne. \u201cFrom Oppositional Readers to Positional Producers: The Making of Black Female Heroism in Coffy.\u201d Screen(London) 53, no. 3 (2012): 266\u2013286.\nRisker, Paul. \u201cThe Accidental Cultist: An Interview with Jack Hill.\u201d Film International, 13, no. 3 (2015): 118-124.\nSiskel, Gene (5/18/1973). \u201cOf Jungle Gyms & Soggy Freaks\u2026\u201d The Chicago Tribune. Section 2, p.3.