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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 films, regardless of subgenre, spawned from race movies.These were films that started appearing in the 1930s–1940s. They were meant to segregate films featuring an all black cast from mainstream Hollywood movies.
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4. Jaws (1975). Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss Rating: PG It’s the summer blockbuster that turned Steven Spielberg into a household name and made people think twice before ...
Truck Turner, also known as Black Bullet, [3] is a 1974 American blaxploitation film, starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto, and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The screenplay was written by Michael Allin, Leigh Chapman (under a pseudonym, Jerry Wilkes), and Oscar Williams. Hayes also scored the music for the soundtrack. [4]
Admittedly, I’m a 1970s nerd with the goal of eventually watching every single movie ever made during the decade, so I was instantly sold by the blaxploitation themes that are heavily present ...
The Mack is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by California native Michael Campus and starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. [4] [5] The film also stars Oscar-nominee Juanita Moore and Tony-nominated actor Dick Anthony Williams.