Foxy Brown

New bookstore brings street literature to the masses

source: Business Gazette

 MD - Joshua Garner, Joshua Garner and founder of Karibu Books, a popular African-American literature retail chain that closed in 2008, said that street literature often plays on stereotypes, comparing it to "blaxploitation" films of the 1970s such as "Shaft" and "Foxy Brown. ...

Published Thu, Apr 30

Free women

source: mydigitalfc.com

 India paintings that depict black women in different guises: posed demurely in their Sunday best as if for church, sprawled naked like sirens or vamping in vixenish outfits that suggest the 1970s blaxploitation heroines Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown. ...

Published Thu, Apr 23

A Confidence Highlighted in Rhinestones

source: New York Times

 United States paintings that depict black women in different guises: posed demurely in their Sunday best as if for church, sprawled naked like sirens or vamping in vixenish outfits that suggest the 1970s blaxploitation heroines Cleopatra Jones and Foxy Brown. ...

Published Fri, Apr 10

Happy Birthday, Quentin Tarantino, Director of “Pulp Fiction”

source: findingDulcinea

 New York In a well-received blast from the past, Tarantino resuscitated the career of Pam Grier, who had starred in 70s blaxploitation films such as “Foxy Brown.” In typical Tarantino style, “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Vol. ...

Published Thu, Mar 26

Film terms you should know: blaxploitation

source: Examiner.com

Blaxploitation ranges from popular films like Foxy Brown (1971), Shaft (1971), and Dolemite (1975) (Warning: graphic language and situations lie in wait on the other side of this link), to lesser known ones, the names of which would likely ring no ...

Published Tue, Mar 10

Easy to Catalog, Hard to Love

source: Chicago Reader

Waddell has a bit more success reclaiming blaxploitation efforts like Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which feature Pam Grier on a vendetta against assorted scumbags. These movies at least showcase a black woman kicking white-boy butt, and so can be seen ...

Published Wed, Feb 25

TUNE IN TONIGHT: 'Mars' hopes to survive the New York competition

source: Reading Eagle

 PA •IFC offers a Pam Grier double feature: "Foxy Brown" (8 pm, TV-MA), followed by "Coffy" (9:45 pm, TV-MA). •"Late Show With David Letterman" (11:35 pm, CBS). Guy Fieri appears. •"The Tonight Show" (11:35 pm, NBC). Jay Leno hosts The Neville Brothers. ...

Published Tue, Jan 27

Black Dynamite makes a bang at Sundance

source: Toronto Star

  Canada - Jan 22, 2009 on the "blaxploitation" movie genre of the 1970s; low-budget actioners where black anti-heroes with names like John Shaft and Foxy Brown busted crime in ...

Published Thu, Jan 22