‘Black Dynamite’ and the Legacy of Blaxploitation in Hollywood

Hollywood’s past is littered with dead genres.  The road musical.  The screwball comedy.  The giant insect attack picture.  It’s inevitable that certain styles will outlive their usefulness and grow stale; they end up in the scrap yard of ideas, waiting to be salvaged for parts.  Even something as hopelessly camp as blaxpoitation, forever associated with [...]