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In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...
Shaft (1971 film) Shaft in Africa; Shaft's Big Score! Shaolin Dolemite; Sheba, Baby; Slaughter (1972 film) Slaughter's Big Rip-Off; Solomon King (film) The Soul of Nigger Charley; Soul Soldier; Space Is the Place; Sparkle (1976 film) Speeding Up Time; The Spook Who Sat by the Door (film) Sugar Hill (1974 film) Super Fly T.N.T. Super Fly (1972 ...
The project is described as both “a documentary and deeply personal essay,” that puts a magnifying glass up to African-American contribution to film throughout the ’70s, an era many refer to ...
Blaxploitation horror films are a way for African Americans to maintain a cultural identity that the white media have been trying to take away from them. Harry M. Benshoff, a professor of film at the University of North Texas, describes blaxploitation horror films as "address[ing] the specific fantasy needs of the black social imaginary". [11]
Blaxploitation film classics such as 'Shaft,' 'Super Fly,' 'Cleopatra Jones' and 'Foxy Brown' conjured a Black Power movement that echoes today. 50 years on, movies anchored in messages of Black ...
In blaxploitation horror movies back in the 1970s, despite the leading stars in those movies being black, some of these movies were either produced, edited, or directed by white filmmakers. Blacula, a well-known blaxploitation horror movie, was directed by an African American filmmaker named William Crain.
Last week I binge watched theGrioTV’s marathon of blaxploitation Pam Grier movies and realized that I know nothing about blaxploitation films and The post Blaculas, Voodoo and Hair Grease: a ...