Film Culture in The Blaxploitation Era in Los Angeles in The 1970s Cover Image

Kultura filmowa ery blaxploitation w Los Angeles lat 70.
Film Culture in The Blaxploitation Era in Los Angeles in The 1970s

Author(s): Ewa Drygalska
Subject(s): Media studies, Civil Society, Communication studies, Politics and society, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Social differentiation, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; blaxploitation; film; b movie; b film; Los Angeles; guerilla filmmaking; jive;

Summary/Abstract: In the article the author presents the preliminary results of her research project on blaxploitation movie‐going culture in Los Angeles in the 1970s oriented towards New Film History paradigm. The term blaxploitation describes the explosion of cheaply‐made black oriented b‐movies that was a consequence of grindhouse popularity and civil rights movement in the late 1960s.

  • Issue Year: 37/2013
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 102-117
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish