Blaxploitation

Luther King Jr’s birthday . All this episodes echoed in the Hollywood industry. We show more Blacks, we trust more Blacks. Besides, more African American directors and actors turned towards Hollywood to begin their carriers: 20 years after the Blaxploitation, The “Black Magic” is returning. Re-integrating Hollywood mainstream has a cost. This Black cinema is less political but more commercial. Anne Crémieux evokes the fact that the interest of the Hollywood producers for the Black cinema bases…

During this era, authors and artists intentionally used stereotypical images of race in their works. In spite of the Blaxploitation era’s use of racial stereotypes, it was able to draw African American communities together to respond to the suppressive situations they faced. This ability is evident in the novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door.” In this novel one man, Dan…

educate and inform as well as entertain. This is how the success of gangsta rap started - with the personal relevance of the lyrics to the African American audience. “One of the most important and easily identifiable characteristics shared by Blaxploitation and gangsta rap involves the use of and reliance on place, space, and setting to establish cultural relevance, authenticity, and credibility among African American audiences.” (Engels, 6). The audience becomes more engaged in the message.…

as slaves, maids, criminals, or slow. She said she started seeing in change in the different roles they were playing because African Americans began to make their own movies about their own culture. A good example of this is the raise of 70’s Blaxploitation movies. These movies were made for urban black audiences and many of the main characters were portrayed as heroes or characters who were taking down the oppressive white agenda. It came way to showcase African Americans in a different…

Quentin Tarantino’s Trademarks Quentin Tarantino is an American actor, writer, and director. Some of his notable films include the Hateful Eight of 2015, Djengo Unclaimed of 2012, Inglourious Bastards of 2009, Jackie Brown of 1994, Pulp Fiction of 1994, Reservoir Dogs of 1992, and Kill Bill Volume one and two (Film Reference, n.d.). Tarantino’s films are characterized by glorified violence, extended dialogue scenes, use of title card and soundtracks mainly containing songs of between the 1960s…

Get Out is the horror film directed by comedian Jordan Peele, it follows main character Chris Washington as he joins his girlfriend Rose on a trip to meet her white liberal parents. What happens when Chris and Rose arrive is what made Get Out one of the most successful horror films of the year. Peele created a film that dealt with a black person’s navigation in White America, in my research of the discourse surrounding Get Out I found five articles and one thread of viewer comments on Tumblr.…

Hollywood has spent years making movies, attracting an audience and making profit from their projects, but if there’s one thing has that has been missing from Hollywood and that 's been complete diversity. Ever since Hollywood 's upbringing and even still today, the business has underplayed minority actors and actress. The start of 20th century film began with mocking African Americans with black face and playing them as immature and violent savages the majority of these films were to keep…

lifestyles. Johnson confronted and spoke with John Malone (A board member of NCTA) to invest in his idea. Malone sometime agreed. On January 25, 1980, BET aired on cable television. The beginning of BET consisted of films from the 1940s and 1950s and Blaxploitation films. Later than expanding to television shows. Then news about the African American community. Later on music to the general population. Today reaching viewers across the world to 88,255,000 American…

During the late 1980’s African American cinema transformed by the two movies Krush Groove and Do The Right Thing. The directors chose to not only expose the experiences of some black Americans during the time, they also used music to enhance the scenes and express the message they wanted to share. Adding another element like music to the films created an atmosphere for the audience to capture their imaginations. The directors primarily capitalized on the newly fad of hip-hop by targeting the…

According to Miller, the film is listed among other films whose main female characters are depicted as violent in their pursuit for freedom and self-rule. Thelma and Louise are described not as a male bashing and anti-feminist film (Miller 201). Male dominance over female characters such that the woman knows no freedom of choice and voice, no respect, and always submissive to a man’s snaps and tantrums drives the hell out of her. She is not by nature violent as initially depicted of Thelma, a…