1960’s exploitation films did so much for the industry, as they created a general roadmap for how to make a commercially successful film. The following decade would bring further proof in the form of ...

We speak with author and culture critic Odie Henderson about his latest book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema. Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited ...

It’s the summer of “Blaxploitation, Baby!,” the latest festival hosted by Film Forum. The indie theater announced the upcoming festival which will take place August 16 through August 22. The program ...

Blaxploitation is a genre whose iconography has, through time, repetition and reduction, come to be defined by kitsch. The term immediately conjures images of bad ass afro-clad Black men and women ...

Film Forum will be presenting a group of films dating largely from the genre’s heyday, the early 1970s, under the title “Blaxploitation, Baby!” Has this series been mounted as an air-conditioned ...

Films starring Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, and more will screen. The indie theater announced the upcoming festival which will take place August 16 through August 22.