Blaxploitation film

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A genre of American film of the 1970s featuring African-American actors in lead roles and often having antiestablishment plots, frequently criticized for stereotypical characterization and glorification of violence. While African-American filmmakers were substantially involved in making early movies in this genre, their participation in subsequent productions was minimal.

[Blend of black and exploitation.]

blaxploitation [ˌblæksplɔɪˈteɪʃən]

(Performing Arts) a genre of films featuring Black stereotypes

[from bla(ck) + (e)xploitation]

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blaxploitation - the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies)

using, victimisation, victimization, exploitation - an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly); "capitalistic exploitation of the working class"; "paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"

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He looks at turn-of-the century magazines and novels, gangster films of the 1930s and 1940s, Blaxploitation films of the 1960s and 1970s, and HBO's urban series.

Metropolis; the American city in popular culture by Reference & Research Book News

One of my earliest decisions in writing was to move the action from New York City to Los Angeles, where most of the blaxploitation films Angela appeared in would have been made.

What might have been: where research ends and imagination takes over ... by Southgate, Martha / Black Issues Book Review

While the demise of the blaxploitation film has been attributed by some to its very nature as a short-cycle genre--studios made increasingly low-budget and formulaic films and so turned viewers away--there is as well a more interesting tale, less often told.

Oedipus directs: Isaac Julien on Baadasssss! by Julien, Isaac / Artforum International

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