What are BlaxPloitation movies?

Blaxploitation Films are a genre of film that has achieved its height of popularity in the 70s in America. These films focused on African -American audience and used mostly black cast and excluded stories set in Urban America. Blaxploitation films most often had a low budget focused on marketing campaigns and represented the Soul and Funk Music soundtracks. The term Blaxploitation is a combination of "black" and "exploitation". In Hollywood, there are movies from the exploitation of low -budget films that rely on catchy elements such as gore, violence or sexual content to attract the audience. This 1971 film concentrated on the escape of a black man from white police officers after he escaped from custody. Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song represented many topics that would become the main genre, including the effects of oppression on the black population or the danger world of drugs, militant groups and gangs. The film proved to be popularly popular and is often considered to be responsible for the opening of the genreXploitation. The film presents Richard Roundtree as a detective John Shaft and enters the world of urban life intermittent by violence and gangs. Soundtrack, mostly musician Isaac Hayes, presented the famous "theme of Shaft ", who continued to win the Academy Award for the best original song in 1972.

Despite the attraction of a film genre focused on a typically insufficiently represented minority, the Blaxploitative Films have encountered rapid criticism. In its depiction of the African-American world, films have heavily focused on the dark lower streams of society and promoted many incorrect stereotypes about blacks. The Jakonářod Association for Progress of Colorful People (NAACP) fought against films and considered them to be racist and harmful efforts for equality.

Regardless of criticism, the BlaxPloitation films were helpful in the development of the voice of black filmmakers in Hollywood. Modern filmmakers howThe Spike Lee and John Singleton earned the success of films made specifically for African American audiences to create movies that are relevant and important for both the film world and the real world. Despite the kitschy and somewhat gratuitous nature of many of the early films Blaxploitation, they were undoubtedly vital in creating a more balanced and diverse film landscape.