In the 1960s and ’70s, his leggy femmes fatales beckoned from paperback covers and posters for movies like “Breakfast at ...

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For Mickalene Thomas, a luminary of the contemporary art world who specializes in dazzling collage portraits ... works that often seem to draw on chic blaxploitation films like Gordon Parks ...

While Kelvin snarks at our protagonists that 1973 bad-taste blaxploitation classic ... a sparkly jacket worthy of Prince and paints oil portraits when not slapping women around.) ...

Fifty years later, the films of 1975 remain some of the most influential, shocking, and genre-defining works ever put on screen. From chilling thrillers to absurd comedies and thought-provoking dramas ...

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Quentin Tarantino has always talked as highly of his inspirations as he talks of himself, awarding glowing praise to those who have influenced his work and shaped his voice as a director, describing ...

And so did the term blaxploitation. Grier says the action films were a product of their time — and were not only limited to Black themes. “There was white exploitation, Black exploitation.

It was basically a political marketing ploy.” Yet Grier clarified that there is not only blaxploitation onscreen, but rather exploitative genre films for any race and gender. “There was white ...

Those movies, which still draw sold-out revival house crowds 50 years later, are now commonly referred to as “blaxploitation” pictures — a term Grier says was introduced by marketers at ...

“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves,” President Trump said of the portrait, which portrayed the president with remarkably softened features. By Chris Cameron and Matthew ...