Sentences with phrase «from blaxploitation»

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.

«These pieces and perspectives narrate several Ofilis: the colorist who works in restricted palettes, at times Garveyite red, black and green, at others blue monochromes or Favist ochres, purples and greens; the scatologist who uses shit as a sculptural base and pictorial ground, handling paint both to build up and denude his paintings surfaces; and the mime of machismo and voyeurism who draws on imagery from blaxploitation, Marvel comics, porn, and postcolonial African photography,» he writes.

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 painting depicted a Black Madonna surrounded by images from blaxploitation movies and close - ups of female genitalia cut from pornographic magazines, and elephant dung.

Imagine portraits that combine inspiration from Blaxploitation films, Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres «Une Odalisque» (1814), Andy Warhol's silk screen portraits, and Lil» Kim's album covers.

This playlist features some great soundtracks from blaxploitation movies In today's Hollywood, blaxploitation movies have a powerful advocate in director Quentin Tarantino whose many movies are a salute to the genre.

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.

The plot that follows features plenty of nonsensical twists and turns that give White and director Scott Sanders an excuse to pack in every memorable element from Blaxploitation's heyday.

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.

Not exact matches

After Menke's tragic death in 2010, Raskin got the call from Tarantino to take the lead on editing his new Spaghetti - Western - meets - blaxploitation flick.

An African - American supporting actor, onscreen from 1972, Blakely often appeared in blaxploitation films.

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».

In the Nineties and the early 2000s, attempts to make black superhero movies tended to play like Blaxploitation - lite, running the gamut from intentionally hilarious (1993's Meteor Man and 1994's Blankman) or hilariously bad (Steel and Spawn, both 1997).

After several years» absence from the screen, Jim Brown co-starred with fellow blaxploitation icons Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree in the delightfully «retro» action-fest Original Gangstas (1996).

The track evokes the pastness of Blaxploitation while simultaneously recalling the following verse from Gaye's «Trouble Man»: «I come up hard / I had to fight / Took care of my business / With all my might».

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.

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.

«Black Dynamite,» which stars Michael Jai White in the titular role, is a send - up of Blaxploitation movies that, unlike the parodies from schlock masters Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg (the guys behind «Meet The Spartans,» «Disaster Movie,» et al), actually reveres its source material.

Tarantino's favorite record crates to pull from are 1960s - 70s Italian giallo (slasher) films, blaxploitation flicks, American b - movies and spaghetti Westerns.

His first foray into cherry - picking scores was a bit obvious, using music from Pam Grier «s blaxploitation films for the score to his celluloid statue built to Grier, Jackie Brown.

From its bombastic title on down, Spike Lee is in stylistic conversation with the blaxploitation genre.

In this remake of the 1972 blaxploitation classic (from «Hotline Bling» music video whiz Director X), Trevor Jackson stars as a drug dealer trying to go straight.

Sprung more from a tradition of blaxploitation than from Coppola's cosa nostra, it has a certain Seventies retro charm to it.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has released a new trailer for Director X's remake of the 1972 blaxploitation action classic «SuperFly» which shifts the story's setting from Harlem to Atlanta and includes elements from cartels to cryptocurrency.

It's blaxploitation, Seventies paranoia, and the latest Spike Lee Joint from Ground Zero.

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.

His unique and original screenplays that often pay homage to by - gone genres (Blaxploitation, Grindhouse, Spaghetti Western) are clear influences throughout his work and have won him countless awards and accolades in the process from Oscars to The Palme d'Or.

Taking its cue from the liberating, rebellious high point of the Roger Corman - produced «Rock and Roll High School,» in which P. J. Soles and the Ramones rock the hallways of Vince Lombardi High, it offers up dizzying bursts of quintessential Corman: cheesy monsters, fiery car explosions, Vincent Price, blaxploitation kickass, marauding piranhas and Mary Woronov with a gun.

It operates at a blaxploitation - filtered remove from the present day, but still addresses issues of politics, racism and African - American history.

Gordon Parks Jr.'s 1972 blaxploitation film gets a slick modern update with 2018's Superfly, a new movie from a filmmaker Director X. Watch the Superfly trailer below.

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.

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.

Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from 19th - century French painting to 1970s Blaxploitation films, Thomas's work attempts to «inject black women into the art historical canon.»

Often presented in a setting redolent of the 1970s, these portraits conjure the spirit of that era's expressions of self - determination within the black community, from afrocentrism to the literatature of Tony Morrison and Alex Haley to blaxploitation cinema.

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.

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.

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.

Her subjects seem to have stepped directly from a 1970s Blaxploitation film, yet Thomas's influences extend far beyond.

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.»

Chris Ofili is renowned internationally for his richly layered works that combine imagery and influences from sources as divergent as comic books, hiphop, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Biblical scenes, and 1970s - era Blaxploitation films.

Building on Conceptual identity art, borrowing from art history and 1970s blaxploitation extravagance, they subvert prevailing notions of beauty and taste and subvert the male gaze while offering resounding proof that the political, not only the personal, can also be stunningly pictorial.

In his extremely diverse oeuvre, Ofili has taken imagery and inspiration from such disparate, history - spanning sources as the Bible, hip - hop music, Zimbabwean cave paintings, Blaxploitation films, and William Blake's poems.

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.