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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.
Lawrenc, Novotny (2007). Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre (Studies in African American History and Culture). NY: Routledge; 1 edition.
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.
This movie has political and social commentary in which the vampires are a metaphor for capitalism, according to Harry M. Benshoff. [13] Modern homages of this genre include Jackie Brown, Pootie Tang, Undercover Brother, Black Dynamite, Proud Mary and BlacKkKlansman. The 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die uses blaxploitation themes.
Charles Burnett is one of the earliest Black film directors on this list. He made his mark with experimental masterpieces like “Killer of Sheep” (1978) and “To Sleep with Anger” (1990).
B. BaadAsssss Cinema; The Bad Bunch; Bamboo Gods and Iron Men; Bare Knuckles; Black Belt Jones; Black Caesar (film) Black Chariot; Black Cobra (film series) Black Devil Doll from Hell
Boss Nigger (also known as Boss and The Black Bounty Killer) is a 1975 blaxploitation Western film directed by Jack Arnold, starring former football player Fred Williamson, who also wrote and co-produced the film. It is the first film for which Williamson was credited as screenwriter or producer. [1] [2]