How to Use blaxploitation in a Sentence

blaxploitation

noun
  • Speed’s real life had its share of blaxploitation-style drama.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Her mother was a famed blaxploitation star and her grandmother was a grand dame of the theater.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • Bones paid homage to the start of Grier’s legendary career in blaxploitation genre films.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • At the time, Hayes had just come off of scoring the iconic 1971 blaxploitation film Shaft.
    — Krystal Rodriguez, Billboard, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This meant wearing my blaxploitation ‘fro on that Miss Texas and Miss America stage.
    — Náosha Gregg, Glamour, 10 Aug. 2022
  • King Richard creates a cliché, not a character — a BLM form of blaxploitation.
    — Armond White, National Review, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Foxxy, who is clearly modeled on blaxploitation goddess Pam Grier, has a lot of snazzy little outfits and a few good lines.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 19 July 2022
  • The blaxploitation film stars Pam Grier as a nurse who goes on a roaring rampage of revenge against the drug dealers and mob bosses in her city.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Tarantino loves to homage, and Jackie Brown is influenced by 70s blaxploitation films.
    — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 21 Aug. 2017
  • In short, Gunn’s original cut of Ganja & Hess didn’t do enough exploiting to ride the wave of blaxploitation.
    — Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
  • By the late 1970s, the blaxploitation category had fizzled out.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Adapted by Ivan Dixon, the movie traffics in the same set pieces and cliches of the era’s blaxploitation classics, but for a far more serious purpose than cheap thrills.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The result was something of a mess—the origin stories of disco and hip-hop with elements of blaxploitation and kung fu told through the fantastical Luhrmann lens.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 25 May 2017
  • The hero was previously brought to the screen during the height of Hollywood’s blaxploitation genre in the 1970s.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Cimber, the creative engine behind the show, was a veteran director of Broadway and blaxploitation films.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 20 June 2017
  • Consider the blaxploitation boom of the 1970s, which handily saved the studio system.
    — Vulture, 22 May 2023
  • But unlike her ’70s films, Quentin Tarantino’s homage to blaxploitation showcased a heroine who didn’t need to resort to soft-core tactics.
    — Dante A. Ciampaglia, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In the ’70s, horror became less popular (except for the intro of Blacula), which ushered in the blaxploitation era.
    — Malik Peay, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The sequel to the smash ‘70s blaxploitation Blacula, Scream Blacula Scream is a hot mess.
    — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The action movie was produced by rapper Future as a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The movie is a biopic of stand-up comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who breaks through with a persona named Dolemite, a pimp with a cane, and becomes a blaxploitation leading man.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • As a lover of blaxploitation films (who is also critical of them when need be), Blade hits all the right referential notes, taking the best elements of what those films had to offer and leaving all the trash.
    — Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
  • His burgeoning jazz-funk had a cinematic flair that flowered on his soundtrack for the seminal blaxploitation film Coffy in 1973.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
  • That doesn’t mean that white men — or white women, a demographic that includes me — aren’t qualified to review the movie, which is a sequel to the 1971 classic of blaxploitation.
    — Kristen Page-Kirby, Twin Cities, 13 June 2019
  • In 1973, Ayers wrote and produced the soundtrack for blaxploitation action flic Coffy, which starred Pam Grier.
    — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
  • At one point, Patrice and Stallworth argue about blaxploitation and representations of black people in films and how those help or hurt the position of black Americans.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 15 May 2018
  • Ru’s previous movies, like her blaxploitation parody series Starrbooty, are entertainingly low-budget ridiculousness but not worth paying to see on the big screen.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026
  • Flavored with a soundtrack of Motown hits, the film, which featured Turman in his first lead role, was a sharp contrast to the blaxploitation films popular in the mid-1970s.
    — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Last fall, Variety reported that Sony was working on a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation flick Super Fly.
    — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Ayers also made a name for himself in film soundtracks, composing the score for the 1973 blaxploitation classic Coffy, starring Pam Grier.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025

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