The Blaxploitation Female

Abstract

As per the title, this chapter talks about how the blaxploitation style evolved, however briefly, into a glossier stylistic approach with a female-led perspective. The film ‘Coffy’, which made Pam Grier a superstar, is maintained to be a game-changing text which also concluded blaxploitation as a viable commercial force. The motion picture, made by the independent studio AIP which was primarily a B-movie company, took the blaxploitation ethos into a more lavish production style and – arguably – began to move its various representations into a direction that took it away from its radical underground roots.