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Definition of blaxploitation
: the exploitation of blacks by producers of black-oriented films blaxploitation movies
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Cheryl first sees the Watermelon Woman as a beguiling actress in a 1930s blaxploitation film called Plantation Memories.
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Matt Cimber, a director known for 1970s blaxploitation films, supplied campy storytelling, and Las Vegas casino owner Meshulam Riklis supplied the financing.
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Cimber, the creative engine behind the show, was a veteran director of Broadway and blaxploitation films.
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This was pre-Spike Lee and after the blaxploitation era.
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This blaxploitation classic about a tough lady who poses as a prostitute to exact revenge against thugs made Grier into a black action hero.
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The result was something of a mess—the origin stories of disco and hip-hop with elements of blaxploitation and kung fu told through the fantastical Luhrmann lens.
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This was pre-Spike Lee and after the blaxploitation era.
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The Matrix (as blaxploitation flick); Watchmen (with Brigitte Bardot); and The X-Men (with Béla Lugosi as Magneto).
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Origin and Etymology of blaxploitation
blend of blax- (alteration of blacks) and exploitation
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