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   Feb 26, 2024 · As the undisputed queen of blaxploitation films, Grier has a lot to say about the term. "It wasn't blaxploitation for the first nine movies ever done by Black males," she tells Q 's Tom Power in a ...

2. www.vulture.com › article › how-coffy-made-pam-grierHow ‘Coffy’ Made Pam Grier a Blaxploitation Movie Star

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   Mar 4, 2024 · The poster for Jack Hill’s 1973 blaxploitation classic, Coffy, promises “the baddest one-chick hit squad to ever hit town. She’ll cream you!”. The hit squad in question was Pam Grier, the ...

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   Pam Grier (Coffy, Foxy Brown) is Hollywood’s original female action hero and the undisputed queen of 1970s Blaxploitation movies. This month, the Toronto Black Film Festival is presenting her ...

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   Sep 29, 2023 · Coffy saw Pam Grier as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie, breaking ground for later female roles such as Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator and Nakia in Black Panther.

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pam_GrierPam Grier - Wikipedia

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   In the late 1990s, Grier was a cast member of the Showtime series Linc's. She appeared in 1996 in John Carpenter 's Escape from L.A. and 1997 with the title role in Quentin Tarantino 's Jackie Brown, films that partly paid homage to her 1970s blaxploitation films. She was nominated for numerous awards for her work in the Tarantino film.

7. www.tpr.org › arts-culture › 2022/10/25Pam Grier on Blaxploitation, criticism, and the horse that ...

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   Oct 26, 2022 · Pam Grier paved the way for women in Hollywood. Known as one of the most powerful action stars of the 1970s Blaxploitation genre, Grier made a name for herself as a badass, gun-slinging icon. That persona led filmmaker Quintin Tarantino to write a film for her in which she played Jackie Brown. On the podcast “ The Plot Thickens,” host Ben ...

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   Who was Pam Grier in blaxploitation?

   • Sign up here. Coffy saw Pam Grier as the main propulsive force in a Blaxploitation movie, breaking ground for later female roles such as Ripley in Alien, Sarah Connor in Terminator and Nakia in Black Panther.

   Coffy: how Blaxploitation star Pam Grier helped lead the way for strong

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   Did Pam Grier make a blaxploitation film?

   • And while Black women were making strides as leads in blaxploitation-adjacent films like Sounder and Lady Sings the Blues, they had yet to showcase their talents by carrying a blaxploitation film the way Richard Roundtree and Ron O’Neal had done. Pam Grier’s starring role in Coffy in 1973 changed all that.

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   Who is Pam Grier?

   • Pam Grier in the Q studio in Toronto. (Vivian Rashotte/CBC) Long before Angelina Jolie or Lupita Nyong'o were some of Hollywood's go-to female action stars, Pam Grier was doing her own stunts, chasing bad guys and seeking vigilante justice in low-budget '70s action movies.

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   Are Blaxploitation movies empowering?

   • The blaxploitation subgenre emerged as one of the first in which Black characters were protagonists, rather than sidekicks, but its legacy remains controversial. Some say these movies were empowering, while others accused them of perpetuating stereotypes. As the undisputed queen of blaxploitation films, Grier has a lot to say about the term.

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   Who is Pam Grier in 'Coffy'?

   • Pam Grier as vigilante nurse Coffy who seeks to punish drug dealers and corrupt officials. Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy When Pam Grier’s breakthrough movie Coffy was released in 1973, American International Pictures was clearly confident that her eponymous character was a supercharged heroine who would excite filmgoers.

   Coffy: how Blaxploitation star Pam Grier helped lead the way for strong

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   What is the blaxploitation subgenre?

   • The blaxploitation subgenre emerged from this trend among the civil rights and Black Power movements as a way to describe exploitation films by, for and about communities of colour. Grier says the term blaxploitation "was basically like a conspiracy" to keep her films out of theatres.

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   Feb 26, 2024 · Pam Grier (Coffy, Foxy Brown) is Hollywood's original female action hero and the undisputed queen of 1970s Blaxploitation movies. This month, the Toronto Black Film Festival is presenting her with a career achievement award in honour of the five decades she's spent representing Black women on screen.