BLAXPLOITATION Definition & Meaning

Blaxploitation

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noun

(often lowercase)

a subgenre of American cinema in the 1970s featuring Black protagonists in exploitation films intended to appeal to African American audiences.

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noun

a genre of films featuring Black stereotypes

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Origin of Blaxploitation¹

Blend of Blax (respelling of Blacks ) + exploitation; coined by Dr. Junius Griffin (1929–2005) of the Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP in 1972 in response to the movie Super Fly (1972)

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Origin of Blaxploitation¹

C20: from bla ( ck ) + ( e ) xploitation

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He did the soundtrack to the Blaxploitation movie “Coffy,” which was co-written by its star Pam Grier and director Jack Hall.

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He also wrote and produced the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film Coffy starring Pam Grier.

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“Like, OK, let’s have an Asian child and a Black — I used to get more offended by that than just — I grew up watching Blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, ‘That’s great.’

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“Fight Night” flirts with a variety of styles — blaxploitation, police procedural, social drama, the buddy-cop movie — which are successful on their own terms but don’t easily cohere.

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“A lot of the movies we would talk about were movies of the ’70s and blaxploitation.

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