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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 ...
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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 ...
Ken Foree (1946–present) appeared in many genre films throughout the 70s and 80s, is most notable for his role in Dawn of the Dead. Duane Jones (1936–1988) is known for starring in Night of the Living Dead. Pam Grier (1949–present) has started in many blaxploitation horror films, most notably the Blacula sequel Scream Blacula Scream.
Coffy is a 1973 American blaxploitation action thriller film written and directed by Jack Hill.The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier who seeks violent revenge against a heroin dealer responsible for her sister's addiction.
"A lot of the movies we would talk about were movies of the ’70s and blaxploitation. That informed the elevated cinematic aesthetic we wanted in telling this grounded Black story. That's the ...
Hit Man is a 1972 American crime film directed by George Armitage [2] and starring Bernie Casey, Pam Grier and Lisa Moore. [3] It is a blaxploitation-themed adaptation of Ted Lewis' 1970 novel Jack's Return Home, more famously adapted as Get Carter (1971), with the action relocated from England to the United States.