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Blaxploitation - Index

• Blaxploitation

• Definition

• Common qualities

• Stereotypes

• Famous blaxploitation films

• Black Mama, White Mama

• Blacula

• Cleopatra Jones

• Cotton Comes to Harlem - Darktown Strutters

• Detroit 9000 - Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde - Dolemite

• Ebony, Ivory & Jade

• Hammer - Hit Man

• Jackie Brown - Johnny Tough - The Legend of Nigger Charley

• The Mack

• Drum

• Passion Plantation (1976)

• Sheba, Baby

• Space Is the Place (1974)

• Super Fly - Three the Hard Way - Trick Baby

• Trouble Man

• Truck Turner

• Willie Dynamite

• Later media references

• John Singleton’s remake of Shaft

• Snoop Dogg - Big Daddy Kane

• Parodies and spoofs

• I’m Gonna Git You Sucka

• FOX’s network television

• Ladies’ Man

• Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force series

• Drawn Together

• Beavis and Butthead Do America

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Cleopatra Jones

• Cleopatra Jones (1973) and its sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975), are films about a tough, street-smart black woman. The first film marked the beginning of a subgenre of blaxploitation films which focused on strong female leads who took an active role in shootouts and fights. Some of these films include Coffy, Black Belt Jones, Foxy Brown, and Get Christie Love!.
• Coffy (1973) Pam Grier is Coffy, a nurse turned badass who takes revenge on all those who hooked her 11-year-old sister on heroin.

Blaxploitation - Cotton Comes to Harlem - Darktown Strutters

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