A film that already starts out oddly enough — as a kind of subversive biopic about a low point in Miles Davis» life — gets even stranger as it morphs into an ode to «
70s blaxploitation movies, before a third act in which it completely disables the brakes.
The scenes in the auto plant feature compelling shots of machines and men hard at work that recall both the verité documentaries of Frederick Wiseman and the gritty realism of
70s blaxploitation filmmaking.
Not exact matches
She became a trend setter for future heroines to come, but she herself is inspired by the
blaxploitation stars of the
70s such as Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson.
Though informed by the
blaxploitation soundtracks of the «
70s and the label - driven hip - hop soundtracks of the «90s, Black Panther: The Album is very much of its time: a well - produced and incredibly cohesive album with the loose swagger of a curated playlist.
Tarantino's favorite record crates to pull from are 1960s -
70s Italian giallo (slasher) films,
blaxploitation flicks, American b - movies and spaghetti Westerns.
He revels in pop culture, especially that of the
70s, and he's no snob; The French New Wave or
blaxploitation, The Wild Bunch or The Brady Bunch — it's all grist.
Starting at the turn of the 20th Century, Exploitation Cinema emerged from the tents of carnie sideshows, reared its ugly head in the first true Exploitation features like Traffic in Souls and Freaks, brushed shoulders with hard - boiled Film Noir in the «40s, came of age with the teen flicks of the «50s, razzed Hollywood's stodgy Production Code with innumerable «Nudie Cuties» and «Roughies,» rode high on the hog with the biker pix of the «60s and pimp - slapped some jive turkeys during the «
Blaxploitation» boom of the «
70s.
Most were created during an earlier time of African - American empowerment: the black power movement and the
blaxploitation movie genre of the 1960s and
70s.
In the
70s, as new black heroes emerged from
Blaxploitation films to grapple with the racial, social, economic and political issues of the day, Marvel's writers once more attempted to make Black Panther more openly political.
If contemporary audiences respond to these new films with the same enthusiasm that audiences responded to
blaxploitation back in the
70s, then this would indicate an especially triumphant return.
While this story might seem simple enough, Chabon sprinkles it with doses of trivia from the
70s:
blaxploitation movies (see Beyond the Book), and jazz, soul and funk music; as well as cult movie classics - a noticeable nod to Quentin Tarantino is included.
BadAsssss Cinema is a feature documentary in which Isaac Julien explores the
70s hollywoodian film genre known as
blaxploitation and its trajectory in American cinema and society.
In the early
70's bullet belts were a fashion statement, I think inspired by the
blaxploitation movies of the time.