Common Law Wife + Jennie, Wife/Child: Backwoods Double Feature (Blu-ray)
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on July 2nd, 2024
The films of the 1960’s and 1970’s began an era of what have been called exploitation films. There are many examples of films that pushed the R to X boundaries and have been referred to as Sexploitation films. Today we might call them soft porn, and examples of those early films includes Daughter Of The Sun (1963) and The Twilight Girls (1961). There were also films that took advantage of a certain aspect of black culture in the 70’s and made to appeal to the young, “hip” blacks of the decade but also became quite popular with the mainstream audiences. Films from that genre include iconic movies like the Shaft and Dolemite franchises. There’s another of these kinds of films that hasn’t gotten quite the attention and aren’t as well remembered. That group of films from mainly the 60’s were called Hicksploitation. These films provided heavy stereotyping like the Blacksploitation films did
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