How to Use blaxploitation in a Sentence

blaxploitation

noun

• This was pre-Spike Lee and after the blaxploitation era.
  — Lee Daniels, VanityFair.com, 19 June 2017
• This was pre-Spike Lee and after the blaxploitation era.
  — Lee Daniels, HWD, 14 Oct. 2017
• At the time, Hayes had just come off of scoring the iconic 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft.
  — Krystal Rodriguez, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2019
• The hero was previously brought to the screen during the height of Hollywood’s blaxploitation genre in the 1970s.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2022
• King Richard creates a cliché, not a character — a BLM form of blaxploitation.
  — Armond White, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
• In short, Gunn’s original cut of Ganja & Hess didn’t do enough exploiting to ride the wave of blaxploitation.
  — Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
• This meant wearing my blaxploitation ‘fro on that Miss Texas and Miss America stage.
  — Náosha Gregg, Glamour, 10 Aug. 2022
• Speed’s real life had its share of blaxploitation-style drama.
  — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• The sequel to the smash ‘70s blaxploitation Blacula, Scream Blacula Scream is a hot mess.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 1 Mar. 2022
• Adapted by Ivan Dixon, the movie traffics in the same set pieces and cliches of the era’s blaxploitation classics, but for a far more serious purpose than cheap thrills.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
• The movie is a biopic of stand-up comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who breaks through with a persona named Dolemite, a pimp with a cane, and becomes a blaxploitation leading man.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Flavored with a soundtrack of Motown hits, the film, which featured Turman in his first lead role, was a sharp contrast to the blaxploitation films popular in the mid-1970s.
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• The action movie was produced by rapper Future as a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
• Foxxy, who is clearly modeled on blaxploitation goddess Pam Grier, has a lot of snazzy little outfits and a few good lines.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 19 July 2022
• Consider the blaxploitation boom of the 1970s, which handily saved the studio system.
  — Vulture, 22 May 2023
• But unlike her ’70s films, Quentin Tarantino’s homage to blaxploitation showcased a heroine who didn’t need to resort to soft-core tactics.
  — Dante A. Ciampaglia, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2018
• By the late 1970s, the blaxploitation category had fizzled out.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Tarantino loves to homage, and Jackie Brown is influenced by 70s blaxploitation films.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
• 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.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 25 May 2017
• Like blaxploitation’s most famous actress, Pam Grier, Ms. Speed fit that mold.
  — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• But for better or worse, the new version has no interest in fashioning the same sort of mashup of blaxploitation and film noir that Gordon Parks Jr. created.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2018
• That doesn’t mean that white men — or white women, a demographic that includes me — aren’t qualified to review the movie, which is a sequel to the 1971 classic of blaxploitation.
  — Kristen Page-Kirby, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
• In the ’70s, horror became less popular (except for the intro of Blacula), which ushered in the blaxploitation era.
  — Malik Peay, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
• For those who aren’t familiar with Gordon Parks Jr.’s 1972 film (an icon of the blaxploitation genre), the movie follows a drug hustler making the most of what his environment provides.
  — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2018
• Last fall, Variety reported that Sony was working on a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation flick Super Fly.
  — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 21 Jan. 2018
• As a lover of blaxploitation films (who is also critical of them when need be), Blade hits all the right referential notes, taking the best elements of what those films had to offer and leaving all the trash.
  — Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
• Roundtree made his name in Hollywood with Shaft, a 1971 blaxploitation classic about a smooth-talking detective who must rescue his kidnapped daughter from the mob.
  — Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023
• Isaac Hayes’ double-album and the soundtrack to the 1971 blaxploitation film was a game-changer for how music was created for films not just in the Black community but the recording industry as a whole.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2021
• At one point, Patrice and Stallworth argue about blaxploitation and representations of black people in films and how those help or hurt the position of black Americans.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 May 2018
• Cimber, the creative engine behind the show, was a veteran director of Broadway and blaxploitation films.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 20 June 2017

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024