Lukey Denny

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Thursday, 10 March 2011

Definitions

Blaxplotation - This is a film genre that started in the United States in 1971, when many films were being made for a specific audience of urban black people. Blaxplotation films were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music. The film 'Shaft' is often to be believed one of the films which started the genre.

Western - The western is another genre. They are devoted to telling stories primarily in the later hald of the 19th century. Some westerns are set as early as the Barrle of the Alamo in 1836, but most are set between the end of the American Civil War in 1865 and the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Westerns aften portray how obsolete ways of life confronted modern or social changes.



Spaghetti Western - Also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid 1960s. The films were shot in inexpensive locales resembling the American Southwest, prilimary in Italy.

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