Sentences with phrase «of blaxploitation movies»

Another cultural contribution of blaxploitation movies was its music - a brand of funk, jazz and soul that provided much of the backbone for the narratives and became the genre's calling card.

One of the blaxploitation movies» most sexy sirens, Pam Grier, starred in the genre's classics, Foxy Brown and Coffy.

«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.

With the brief and fascinating exception of the blaxploitation movies and a few other works of radical or renegade art, vengeance in the American imagination has been the virtually exclusive prerogative of white men.

«Django Unchained» could also be called a revival of the Blaxploitation movie, a genre that became popular in the 1970s featuring mostly black casts, soundtracks with soul and funky music such as wah - wah guitars, with African - Americans taking revenge on «crackers.»

Not exact matches

Pam Grier is at her best recapturing the type of role that made her a bonafide star in»70s blaxploitation movies like Foxy Brown...

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Everyone saw this movie, leading to a series of rip - offs like the Italian - produced Beyond The Door and Abby, a blaxploitation version of the story co-starring Blacula himself, William Marshall.

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.

Tim Story of the original Fantastic Four (2005) is directing the movie, which is seen as a continuation of the story of the private detective that first appeared in the 1970s blaxploitation action movie that became a pop culture phenomenon.

Directed by legendary director Director X, the movie is a remake of the world - famous blaxploitation movie that helped define a genre in its characters, sound, and feel.

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.

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After the blaxploitation movies ran out of steam, she moved back to Denver to be near her family, but continued to work in two or three pictures a year - some of them good roles like the cop - killer in «Fort Apache, the Bronx» (1981), some of them throwaways like «Mars Attacks!»

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.

Most were created during an earlier time of African - American empowerment: the black power movement and the blaxploitation movie genre of the 1960s and 70s.

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.

Even though the term appears to be a loaded word, blaxploitation movies were actually powerful vehicles of self - identification for many blacks.

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.

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.

Her scantily clad black heroines are quasi-self-portraits inspired by pop culture (1960s girl wrestlers, 1970s blaxploitation movies featuring Pam Grier, disco - era album covers, and Jet magazine «Beauties of the Week») and framed by high - culture references to nudes by Matisse, Picabia, and Balthus.

His is a seductive art of braided connections that draws on a wide range of sources — including jazz and hip hop music, Blaxploitation movies, the Bible, and the works of artist and poet William Blake.

In the early 70's bullet belts were a fashion statement, I think inspired by the blaxploitation movies of the time.

His cartoon superhero, Captain Shit, painted in parody of 1970s «blaxploitation» movies, and of the sharply dressed gangsta heroes of rap music, actually glows in the dark.