Sentences with phrase «blaxploitation film which»

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He changed the ethnicity of the lead female character in Leonard's novel from the white Jackie Burke to a black Jackie Brown which allowed him to cast Pam Grier and reference her blaxploitation films «Foxy Brown» and «Coffy» as well as, employing the use of Bobby Womack's «Across 110th Street».

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.

Todd Boyd, professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, pointed to the explosion of blaxploitation films in the 1970 which were cheap to produce and financial hit.

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.

Accompanying a selection of portraits, documentary images and fashion photographs, are excerpts from his films The Learning Tree and Shaft, both of which signalled the start of the popular Blaxploitation genre.

The exhibition will bring together more than 12 of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.

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.

The exhibition will bring together more than twelve of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.