Blaxploitation
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In American cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre that began in the late 1960s and flourished throughout the early to mid-1970s, conseque
Poster of the Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), which is often considered to be the first Blaxploitation film
Richard Roundtree as John Shaft
Brenda Sykes and Perry King on the set of Mandingo (1975).
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles. His son Mario V
Blaxploitation
…produced blaxploitation movies specifically for the cultural sensibilities of mainstream viewers. The movie-business magazine Variety reported the films Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) and Shaft (1971) as the mainstream blaxploitation films that followed the assimilation of blaxploitation into mainstream cinema, by way of the…
When filming the car fire scene, an actual fire truck showed up on location and was included in the final cut of the film. Screenshot from the trailer.