Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A film genre of the 1970s featuring African-American actors and often having antiestablishment plots, sometimes criticized for stereotypical characterization and glorification of violence.
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- noun A
genre ofexploitation films of the 1970s thatstarred black actors .
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- noun the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Shaft" started a mini industry in what became known as blaxploitation movies, and Isaac Hayes began expanding his creativity in new arenas.
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Unlike Brown, Simpson would refuse to act in so-called blaxploitation movies.
Day & Night 2008
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These films are now referred to as blaxploitation movies.
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She was queen of the so-called blaxploitation films of the 1970s.
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Payton hooked his trumpet up to a wah-wah pedal for a song that recalled the blaxploitation flair of the Shaft movie theme.
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Can't conjure a connection between Gloria Steinem and so-called blaxploitation movies?
SFGate: Top News Stories Evelyn C. White 2011
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You had 'blaxploitation' films, but you never had a Latin super-hero. ""
Action Comedy 'Machete' Explores Illegal Immigration Controversy 2010
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You had 'blaxploitation' films, but you never had a Latin super-hero. ""
Action Comedy 'Machete' Explores Illegal Immigration Controversy 2010
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"The 1975 'blaxploitation' action comedy Dolemite will get to fight another day," reports Carolyn Giardina for Reuters.
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The film harks back to the days of "blaxploitation" films, although I've never really understood the exploitation part, but never mind.
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An ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, then president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. He so named it because he claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in criminal activity.
August 8, 2022