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    Blaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s, when the combined momentum of the...
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    Blaxploitation films addressed issues faced by Blacks and told stories from a Black perspective. Another link between 1970s funk and Blaxploitation films...
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  • Foxy Brown (film) (category Blaxploitation films)
    Foxy Brown is a 1974 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character who takes on a gang...
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  • This is an alphabetical list of films belonging to the blaxploitation genre. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aaron...
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  • Black Dynamite (category Blaxploitation films)
    Black Dynamite is a 2009 American blaxploitation action comedy film starring Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, and Salli Richardson. The film was directed...
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    Antonio Fargas is an American actor known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation and comedy movies, as well as his portrayal as Huggy Bear in the 1970s...
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    she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women in prison films for American International Pictures and New...
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  • Gayniggers from Outer Space (category Blaxploitation films)
    artist Morten Lindberg. The film is a parody of the science fiction and blaxploitation genres. The film follows a group of intergalactic homosexual black men...
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  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (category Blaxploitation films)
    I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 American blaxploitation parody film written, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans in his directorial debut. Featured...
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  • Nu Blaxploitation is an album by the American musician Don Byron, released in 1998. He is credited with his band, Existential Dred. Byron supported the...
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  • Shaft (1971 film) (category Blaxploitation films)
    Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. It is an...
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  • Coffy (category Blaxploitation films)
    Coffy is a 1973 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier...
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  • Blaxploitation horror films are a genre of horror films involving mostly black actors. In 1972, William Crain directed what is considered to be the first...
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  • in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence and went on to appear in blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000...
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  • Willie Dynamite (category Blaxploitation films)
    Willie Dynamite is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Gilbert Moses and starring Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker...
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  • Jackie Brown (category Blaxploitation films)
    Niro appear in supporting roles. Jackie Brown pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which also starred...
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  • during the 1970s blaxploitation era, most notably starring as Abby Williams in the American International Pictures 1974 blaxploitation horror film Abby...
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  • and clothes designer best known for his role as Goldie in the 1973 blaxploitation film The Mack. Julien was born in Washington, DC on July 12, 1933. He...
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  • Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak, By David Walker, Andrew J. Rausch, Chris Watson - Page 205 BLAXPLOITATION FROM A TO Z New...
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  • the 1970s TV series S.W.A.T. Perry also played leading roles in two blaxploitation movies in the mid-1970s: The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo...
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    linked from here.) Underground (2016 TV series) Blaxploitation and Slavesploitation List of blaxploitation films List of films about revolution List of films...
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  • They Cloned Tyrone (category Blaxploitation films)
    un-produced scripts. It was conceived as a "genre-bending" homage to the Blaxploitation films of 1970s, featuring elements of satire, mystery, horror, science...
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    in 1973's James Bond film Live and Let Die; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film Black Caesar, and the sequel, Hell Up in Harlem. Born in Jacksonville...
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  • Super Fly (1972 film) (category Blaxploitation films)
    Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American...
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    which was directed by Dennis Hopper. Black exploitation films, or "blaxploitation" films, are made with black actors, ostensibly for black audiences,...
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    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (category Blaxploitation films)
    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by...
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    D'Urville Martin (category Blaxploitation film directors)
    both film and television. He appeared in numerous 1970s movies in the blaxploitation genre. He also appeared in two unaired pilots of what would become All...
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    like Black Caesar feature the Italian mafia prominently. Often the blaxploitation films of the 1970s such as Shaft tell the tale of African American gangsters...
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    sequel Hell Up in Harlem. Williamson also had roles in other 1970s blaxploitation films such as Hammer (1972), That Man Bolt (1973) and Three the Hard...
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  • The Mack (category Blaxploitation films)
    The Mack is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by California native Michael Campus, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. The film...
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