Blaxploitation
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Nov 1, 2026
Samantha N. SheppardGUEST
So outside of, say, race films for the 1940s, 50s.
Samantha N. SheppardGUEST
or outside of the hood films that came out in the 1990s or the Blaxploitation film of the 70s, what other kind of aggregate that is in a small film movement or that is an actual genre that has this sort of large representation of Black people and to be able to work through the ways in which this film or this genre is able to carry questions of race and identity, racial formations, social conflict, And so me enjoying sports and feeling like I could say something about not just representation, but the way in which the sports themselves get played out, thinking about physicality, thinking about embodiment, those things really kind of were meaningful to me.
Samantha N. SheppardGUEST
And so that kind of stuck with me for a bit.
Samantha N. SheppardGUEST
And so I'm really glad that I get to study something that I both love and appreciate, but I also have a good, deep, ambivalent affection for.
Mark H. HarrisGUEST
So I think, you know, only really since probably the 1970s has it started to turn, you know, in the 70s, you had things like Scream, Blackula, Scream, where Pam Greer used voodoo for good to kind of take the vampiric element out of Blackula.
Mark H. HarrisGUEST
And so, you know, he kind of started, I guess, with the whole Blaxploitation movement and with the Black is Beautiful kind of aesthetic in America, then that turned the tables a little bit.
Mark H. HarrisGUEST
And so, you know, it kind of got better, you know, but there was, there kind of ebbs and flows with everything as far as Black cinematic reflection goes.
Mark H. HarrisGUEST
So I think, you know, in the eighties you had some kind of uneasy, you know, reflection with like serpent and a rainbow and things like that.
Jason LenziHOST
tell the folks at home if in case they don't know what is what what is abby
Brian HeilerHOST
abby is the um For lack of a better word, even though some people in the industry didn't really like it, Blaxploitation version of The Exorcist.
Brian HeilerHOST
I like it a lot.
Brian HeilerHOST
I think it's absolutely fantastic.
Uncle PatchesHOST
Funny thing,
Sinister CinemaHOST
I actually kind of, not regularly, but I watched some Blaxploitation films back in the day.
Sinister CinemaHOST
Just because, you know, they are hidden gems.
Brant BumpersGUEST
Yeah.
John MillerHOST
no baby girl we were pushing each other right it was all wrestling
Chris CageGUEST
moves I was watching the Blaxploitation movies with my dad and that used to be like a badge of honor.
Chris CageGUEST
Like, damn, you was knocking down...
Chris CageGUEST
Shaft was knocking down a white woman?
Delio VásquezGUEST
That was part of the reason for the avoidance of sex in particular.
Delio VásquezGUEST
That shows up in some of his early right, some of his, the one essay on the Blaxploitation film.
Delio VásquezGUEST
But by 71, he starts actively critiquing what were clearly assumptions on Kluwer's part about the relationship between sex and power.
Delio VásquezGUEST
Through his reading of Freud and Alfred Adler, argues that eventually the ultimate articulation is that Freud's notion of eros shouldn't be grasped to be understood, shouldn't be thought to be centrally about sex or the libido, but That the human desire for power over their conditions is not fundamentally sexual.
Johnny ShawHOST
And the guy, I don't know the actor's name, the guy played Black Samson.
Johnny ShawHOST
If we ever do Blaxploitation, that's a good one.
Johnny ShawHOST
And then did you spot Sid Haig? Sid Haig shows up.
Johnny ShawHOST
But I say all those names because that's when we talk about Corman, that's what we talk about.
Mark BittmanGUEST
it was dangerous.
Brian RoseHOST
Or the Blaxploitation movies is when I think of New York then and the Warriors.
Mark BittmanGUEST
I mean, I once got told to stay off of a block.
Mark BittmanGUEST
I once got my bike stolen.
Sam JordanHOST
He then made his acting presence felt in many blaxploitation films of the early 70s, including the classic
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Shaft.
Sam JordanHOST
The Mafia Flick Across 110th Street, the ultra-violent Pam Greer vehicle Foxy Brown, and the classic tale of Huckleberry Finn, which I think veered off from Blaxploitation there.
Sam JordanHOST
I could be wrong.
Jeffrey HessHOST
I'm wondering how close they were to the actual script of that book, which may or may not put it in the Blaxploitation category.
Jeffrey HessHOST
Well, okay.
Jeffrey HessHOST
Pam Greer.
Jeffrey HessHOST
It's Foxy Brown.
Pax HollyHOST
It's not the full that we don't need to go into.
Pax HollyHOST
One of the reasons why I don't dip into Blaxploitation very often.
Pax HollyHOST
Yeah, there's other ones I want to see, but like, I haven't seen a lot.
Pax HollyHOST
Like Boss, and then like, there's one called Disco Godfather, and Petey Wheatstraw, and like, you know, I've seen a couple, like those in college, and there's a couple others I want to see, but I just, I don't know.
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