What are Blaxploitation Films?
Blaxploitation films are a genre of film that reached its height of popularity in the 1970s in America. Targeting an African-American audience, these movies used a mostly black cast and featured stories set in urban America. Most often, blaxploitation films had a low budget focused on marketing campaigns, and featured soul and funk music soundtracks. The term blaxploitation is a combination of the words “black” and “exploitation.” In Hollywood, exploitation films are low budget movies that rely on catchy elements, such as gore, violence or sexual content, to attract an audience.
