It cost almost as much to clear the music as to shoot and edit the entire film. The genre's overseas influence extends to artists such as Norway's hip-hop duo Madcon. However, the genre does rank among the first in which black characters and communities are the heroes and subjects of film and television, rather than sidekicks or villains or victims of brutality. Retrieved January 7, Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blaxploitation.
Even though distribution was handed to a smaller distributor who advertised it as an exploitation film, it soon developed a cult following with black viewers.
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