Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is a type of film genre that was emerged in the United States circa in 1971 when many exploitation films were made specifically (and perhaps exclusively) for an audience of urban black people; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation," and was coined in the early 1970s by Los Angeles NAACP head (and ex-film publicist) Junius Griffin. Blaxploitation films were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music. These films starred primarily black actors.[1] Variety magazine credited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, released in 1971, with the invention of the blaxploitation genre. Others argue that the Hollywood-financed film Shaft, also released in 1971, is closer to being blaxploitation, and thus is more likely to have begun the genre.[2]

It is basically a genre when it has main cast of black people and it deals with black Americans and their lives can be realistic or not but tends to refer to real life events, so a lot of references to real issues in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation

The common qualities of a blaxplotaion film are as follows
When set in the Northeast or West Coast of the U.S., Blaxploitation films tend to take place in the ghetto, dealing with hit men, drug dealers and pimps.
the genre frequently takes place in an atmosphere of crime and drug-dealing. Ethnic slurs against whites (e.g., "honky"), and negative white characters such as corrupt cops, politicians, prostitutes and gullible gangsters were common. Blaxploitation films set in the South often take place on a plantation, dealing with slavery and miscegenation









This is a list of all the Blaxploitation films in letter order staring from and A and working its way down to Z the link below is to the website on which I found the information as the image only shows A and B

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