Sentences with phrase «blaxploitation films like»
Seventies Blaxploitation films like Cleopatra Jones, with its gun - toting heroine, capitalized on this burgeoning racial pride, problematically merging a miasma of competing interests, most obviously Black power and female lack.
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The grittiness of the crime drama and action, along with the overriding sense of slick style, feels very much like the John Singleton movie, Four Brothers, which also features a menacing villain and retribution storyline lifted right out of 1970s blaxploitation films.
In her elaborate, large - scale paintings, Mickalene Thomas (born 1971) has engages the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, beauty, and black femininity and a critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in popular culture and media — from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.
The fact that a flashy painting of three black women, who look like they just stepped out of a 1970S blaxploitation film, could be hanging in the West 53rd Street window of the Museum of Modern Art's eatery astonished the artist.
She engages with the tension between a personal investigation of eroticism, black femininity and beauty and a pop - cultural critique of the overt sexual imagery prevalent in the media — from Blaxploitation film heroines like Cleopatra Jones to the construction of middle - class, African - American taste in Ebony magazine.