Sentences with phrase «blaxploitation films of»

Photographic enlargements capture both conscious and unconscious deviations from cultural, social, racial, and gender expectations from the silent era through the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s.

His 2010 wall painting Credit Roll reproduced the names of blaxploitation films of the 1970s in white text over brown paint.

Using high - quality film stills and boxed sections focusing on major themes and personalities, Lace takes the reader through the early blackface actors, the servant roles so prevalent in Depression - era cinema, the broadened awareness of African Americans following WWII, the blaxploitation films of the 1960s, and the impact of Spike Lee's 1989 film, Do the Right Thing.

The Blaxploitation films of the 1970s starred relatively unknown black actors playing new kinds of...

Not exact matches

2» pays homage to a variety of genres — spaghetti Western, film noir, blaxploitation (after all, this is Tarantino we're talking about), kung fu — while actually managing to hammer home a pretty solid, heartfelt story.

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».

It is no surprise that the master of cinematic homage's makes a film that is part Western part blaxploitation film about a slave in search of his wife and revenge.

This is a «remake» of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly, about a cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

There are many moments when the true demeanor of the original and other blaxploitation films come in — that is when the film works.

Quentin Tarantino has dabbled in just about every genre at this point in his career, so it's only natural that he would try his hand at a Western, although «Django Unchained» is actually more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are known for.

In an era where so many films are merely stealing elements from each other, The Mack emerges as one of the most unique, and even if it lacks the focus and jointed structure to call it a great film for mainstream viewers, it is well worth seeking out for fans of not only Blaxploitation films, but gritty crime dramas in general.

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.

Sony Pictures has released a teaser trailer for Superfly, a «remake» of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly, about a cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.

This crossover film, along with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), helped launch the 1970s explosion of the blaxploitation genre.

In the midst of the fight for civil rights, and at a time when Blaxploitation films were in full stride, here we have a film that delves into the very same themes, though in the guise of apes instead of our fellow man.

Blaxploitation got its own vampire in a pair of films starring Shakespearean actor William Marshall.

From here on out, the film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade horror films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a blaxploitation action icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.

Mainly only of interest for blaxploitation fans and lovers of bad movies, but there's something kind of endearing about a film that tries so hard to entertain despite there being not an ounce of talent among any of the participants.

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.

After dabbling in just about every genre at this point in his career, it was only natural that he would eventually try his hand at making a Western, even if «Django Unchained» is more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, complete with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes.

* This release is limited to 1000 copies only * Road to Perdition, B - Movie Style: An extensive interview with «Hellgate» director William A. Levey (HD, 35 mins) * Alien Invasion, Blaxploitation and Ghost - Busting Mayhem: Scholar, Filmmaker and fan Howard S. Berger reflects on the intriguing film career of William A. Levey (HD, 12 mins) * Video Nasty: Kenneth Hall, writer of the Puppet Master series, speaks about the direct - to - video horror boom that allowed «Hellgate» to become a classic of the cassette rental era (HD, 8 mins) * Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys * Collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Lee Gambin, illustrated with original artwork and stills * A DVD of the film is also included alongside the Blu - ray disc

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.

Many blaxploitation films take this same storyline as positive reinforcement of the late 1960s Black Power movement.

Friday Foster was the last film she made for American International Pictures, and in some ways is the apotheosis of the entire early 1970s «blaxploitation» genre.

With this trio of early - to - mid -»70s blaxploitation films, Pam Grier carved out a unique niche for herself and became one of the biggest stars in America while working entirely outside the studio system.

«grown - ish» star Trevor Jackson stars in an update of the»70s blaxploitation film about a young Harlem drug - dealer, this time set in Atlanta among the thriving hip - hop scene.

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.

In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture — Kung Fu,»70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music — and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories.

Shaft, the 1971 blaxploitation crime film, features private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) as he goes up against the white mafia to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem crime kingpin.

Inspired by blaxploitation movies while he was filming his recent acclaimed documentary Baadasssss Cinema, Julien appropriates the styles, gestures, language and iconography of the genre to create a work that defies easy categorization.

Sporting sunglasses, an Afro and a mustache, for example, she confronts the clichés of blaxploitation films.

Inspired by Blaxploitation, the 1970s film genre that includes «Foxy Brown» and «Shaft,» her pieces capture the sassy attitude of the era.

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.

Sometimes she accompanies those painting with video installations that juxtapose Blaxploitation film imagery with that of classic Western European portraiture.

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.

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.

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.

Turner Prize - winning Young British Artist (YBA) Chris Ofili draws inspiration from an eclectic array of popular, artistic, and religious sources, from the Bible and William Blake to blaxploitation films, hip hop, and his Nigerian heritage.

They depict raffish black superheroes, blaxploitation film heroines and a brown clown - faced phallus — curvaceous characters with layers of dots, glitter - strewn resin and exotic backdrops — especially the radiating loops behind the goddesslike «She.»

In two works on view, Cyrus investigates the relationship between individuals and cultures at large, drawing from an archive of African - American political and cultural history that includes abolitionist John Brown, the Black Panthers, and Blaxploitation films.

From Birth of a Nation in the early 1900s to the «Blaxploitation» films of the 1970s, Black women were type - casted as carnal and promiscuous, often as prostitutes or «jezebels.»

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.

Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, New Jersey) uses the visual language of 1970s Blaxploitation films to reconsider the sexualization of the black woman in popular culture.

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.

All have an overriding visual language drawn from an audacious combination of Blaxploitation film and Renaissance art history.

Common sources of inspiration comes from vintage blaxploitation films, black masculinity, hiphop, and the puzzling functioning of the art world with all of it's participants.

The artist's diverse oeuvre has taken imagery and inspiration from such disparate, history - spanning sources as the Bible, hip - hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and the works of William Blake.

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.