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.
Not exact matches
Bones also borrows liberally from the
blaxploitation flicks of the
Seventies in Snoop's period pimp outfit and the presence of Pam Grier in her Foxy Brown attire, yet it lacks the camp appeal that excuses miniscule budgets and a lack of craft.
Sprung more from a tradition of
blaxploitation than from Coppola's cosa nostra, it has a certain
Seventies retro charm to it.
It's
blaxploitation,
Seventies paranoia, and the latest Spike Lee Joint from Ground Zero.
It is tempting to compare Black Panther to Curtis Mayfield's Superfly and Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man, classic
blaxploitation soundtracks that channeled the social consciousness and sonic adventurism of early
Seventies soul.