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blaxploitation Definition

blax·ploi·ta·tion (blaks′plo̵i tā′s̸hən)

noun

the exploitation of African-American characters, settings, themes, etc. in commercial films: used esp. with regard to various films in the late 1960s and early 1970s that emphasized sex, violence, crime, etc. in urban African-American communities

Etymology: ? < bla(ck) + (se)x + (ex)ploitation

blaxploitation Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • movie: Long forgotten Blaxploitation movie with a dope soundtrack from soul legend Willie Hutch.
  • film: Funk's polyrhythmic structure lends itself very well to the action scenes in blaxploitation films.
  • soundtrack: Wicked blaxploitation soundtrack from the marvelous Marvin, where T stands for Trouble.
  • genre: Even within the blaxploitation genre, white members of society maintain a sense of intellectual and moral superiority.
  • cinema: So I ended up suitably primed by this for Baadasssss Cinema, a look at the blaxploitation cinema of the early seventies.
  • flick: Blaxploitation flicks had proper heroes, not anti-heroes, and they always won at the end of the day.

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