I remember being first introduced to Blaxploitation films during late-late-night tv runnings of Cleopatra Jones and the like. They were a revelation to me in tone and quality compared to their main-stream counterparts. Camp for sure, but they blew away the competition in terms of the (actual) gravitas and chemistry of their actors. White Hollywood so prided (and marketed) itself on their supposed daring and sexiness and pushing-the-envelope that to see Blaxploitations films made me forever LOL at the blandness of it all. One single chaste kissing scene alone…every truly shocking action sequence…these intentionally silly films make every other serious white-based production in this time period a real joke. I will die on this hill. Bow-chicka-boom.
I remember being first introduced to Blaxploitation films during late-late-night tv runnings of Cleopatra Jones and the like. They were a revelation to me in tone and quality compared to their main-stream counterparts. Camp for sure, but they blew away the competition in terms of the (actual) gravitas and chemistry of their actors. White Hollywood so prided (and marketed) itself on their supposed daring and sexiness and pushing-the-envelope that to see Blaxploitations films made me forever LOL at the blandness of it all. One single chaste kissing scene alone…every truly shocking action sequence…these intentionally silly films make every other serious white-based production in this time period a real joke. I will die on this hill. Bow-chicka-boom.
I studied Blaxploitation, excited to get into this.
You will enjoy it, especially through the lens Feminista provides us in her post