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Jim Brown: From Integration to Resegregation in The Dirty Dozen and 100 Rifles
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 1, Fall 2011
- pp. 1-25
- 10.1353/cj.2011.0072
- Article
- Additional Information
The Dirty Dozen and 100 Rifles marked the beginning and the beginning of the end of Jim Brown's Hollywood stardom. Brown's powerful persona pushed and quickly exceeded the limits of Hollywood's representation of black masculinity, thus precipitating and necessitating blaxploitation.