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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 ...
The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a black cinema that provides an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema.
Blaxploitation films are a subset of exploitation films, a term derived from the film marketing term emphasizing the promotion of a brand-name star, a trending topic or titilliating subject matter — in short, a nearly surefire draw at the box office. [38] Both exploitation and blaxploitation films are low-budget B-movies, designed to turn a ...
Black Belt Jones II – The Tattoo Connection (1978) Black Brigade, a.k.a. Carter's Army (1970) [9] The Black Bunch (1973) Black Caesar (1973) [11] Black Cobra (1987) The Black Connection, a.k.a. Run Nigger Run (1974) Black Devil Doll (2007) Black Devil Doll From Hell (1984) Black Dynamite (2009) [12][13]
Blaxploitation is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation". It makes a point to enforce stereotypes that have been afflicted on African Americans by the so-called white media. The first blaxploitation film was Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). Melvin Van Peebles directed, produced, and took the hyper-sexualized lead role.
Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman [4] and John D. F. Black. [5] It is an adaptation of Tidyman's novel of the same name and is the first entry in the Shaft film series. The plot revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem ...
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde is a 1976 American blaxploitation horror film loosely inspired by the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. [1] The film stars Bernie Casey and Rosalind Cash, and was directed by William Crain. [2] Along with Crain, and it was written by Larry LeBron and Lawrence Woolner with ...
Running time. 94 min. Country. United States. Language. English. The Black Six is a 1974 American blaxploitation and outlaw biker film written by George Theakos and directed by Matt Cimber. [1] It starred several National Football League stars in the title roles. [1][2] It was one of the first all-black biker films.