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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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Blaxploitation films" The following 162 pages are in this category, out of 162 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
This is an alphabetical list of films belonging to the blaxploitation genre. A. Aaron ... List of blaxploitation films. 2 languages ...
Junius Griffin (January 13, 1929 – June 1, 2005) [1] was an African American Civil Rights activist working as the President of the Beverly-Hills Hollywood chapter of the NAACP, [2] who is best known for his work alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as well as for coining the term “Blaxploitation” in regard to the African American film industry of the 1970s.
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The 1960s and 1970s marked the rise of exploitation-style independent B movies; films which were mostly made without the support of Hollywood's major film studios.As censorship pressures lifted in the early 1960s, the low-budget end of the American motion picture industry increasingly incorporated the sort of sexual and violent elements long associated with so-called ‘exploitation’ films.