For over two decades, Elvis Mitchell, a film critic for LA Weekly and The New York Times, has wanted to put Blaxploitation in its proper historical place.
While the results of his desire would prototypically arrive from Mitchell in the form of a book, sadly, those plans went for naught.
Instead, the project Mitchell wanted to pursue languished as a mere possibility, steadily built up in smaller pieces of writing in other forms and for other singular topics, rather than as a singular actualized holistic body of work.
That is until David Fincher, and Steven Soderbergh provided the backing needed for Mitchell to get his project off the ground.
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