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 ...

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 ...

A Film Forum series pays tribute to the 1970s genre that birthed “Superfly” and “Foxy Brown,” but also features lesser-known films that show the genre’s range. By Robert Daniels John Shaft emerges ...

"It was a term meant to be negative so that the Black audience wouldn’t support the movies and theaters," Grier said, "and there would be room for mainstream movies to take over that space." “They ...

Kill Bill was born from a collaboration between Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman. Its complex legacy reflects that ...

Author Jeff Chang was offered a chance to write about Lee after the success of his 2025 hip-hop chronicle “Can’t Stop Won’t ...

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 ...

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 ...