Black films from the 1930s and 1940s were produced by black filmmakers for a black circuit and were rarely seen by white audiences. So-called blaxploitation films from the 1970s were produced by white filmmakers for a largely urban audience, and these films were shaped for white audiences as well as black. The paper will be a comparison of these two periods in terms of the way the material was shaped, the way the audience was viewed, and the degree to which the audience was either served or exploited in each period.
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