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Boss Nigger, the Glossary

Boss Nigger (also known as Boss and The Black Bounty Killer) is a 1975 blaxploitation Western film directed by Jack Arnold, starring former football player Fred Williamson, who also wrote and co-produced the film.^[1]

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1975 Western (genre) films
African-American Western (genre) films
Dimension Pictures films
Films directed by Jack Arnold

AllMovie

AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.

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Barbara Leigh

Barbara Leigh (born Barbara Ann Kish; November 16, 1946) is a former American actress and fashion model.

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Black power

Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people.

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Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s, when the combined momentum of the civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panthers spurred African American artists to reclaim the power of depiction of their ethnicity, and institutions like UCLA to provide financial assistance for African American students to study filmmaking. Boss Nigger and Blaxploitation are Blaxploitation films.

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Bounty hunter

A bounty hunter is a private agent working for a bail bondsman who captures fugitives or criminals for a commission or bounty.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director.

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D'Urville Martin

D'Urville Martin (February 11, 1939 – May 28, 1984) was an American actor in both film and television.

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Dimension Pictures (1970s company)

Dimension Pictures Inc. (DPI) was an American film studio founded in 1971, which primarily released exploitation and horror films.

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Django Unchained

Django Unchained is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson, with Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson in supporting roles. Boss Nigger and Django Unchained are African-American Western (genre) films and Blaxploitation films.

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Dynamite

Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers.

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Empowerment

Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities.

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Fred Williamson

Frederick Robert Williamson (born March 5, 1938), also known as "the Hammer", is an American actor and former professional football defensive back who played mainly in the American Football League (AFL) during the 1960s.

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Jack Arnold (director)

Jack Arnold (born John Arnold Waks; October 14, 1916 – March 17, 1992) was an American film and television director, considered one of the leading filmmakers of 1950s science fiction films.

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Jefferson, North Carolina

Jefferson is a town in and the county seat of Ashe County, North Carolina, United States.

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List of American films of 1975

This is a list of American films released in 1975.

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Man with No Name

The Man with No Name (Uomo senza nome) is the antihero character portrayed by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Italian Spaghetti Western films: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

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Romantic hero

The Romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has themselves at the center of their own existence.

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Self-parody

A self-parody is a parody of oneself or one's own work.

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Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone (3 January 1929 – 30 April 1989) was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre.

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Sheriff

A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated.

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Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

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Spaghetti Western

The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe.

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Teacher

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Time Out Group

Time Out Group is a British media and hospitality company.

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Todd-AO

Todd-AO is an American post-production company founded in 1953 by Mike Todd and Robert Naify, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries.

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A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater or cinema.

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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Vittorio Cottafavi

Vittorio Cottafavi (30 January 1914 – 14 December 1998) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.

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White people

White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.

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William Smith (actor)

William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Nigger

Also known as Black Bounty Hunter, Black Bounty Killer, Boss (1975 film), The Black Bounty Hunter, The Black Bounty Killer, The Boss (1975 film).

Boss Nigger, the Glossary

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See also

1975 Western (genre) films

African-American Western (genre) films

Dimension Pictures films

Films directed by Jack Arnold

References