When Foxy Brown comes to town, all the brothers gather around,

because she can really shake them down.

The stuff that can happen in a black exploitation from the stuff that happens in Foxy Brown is,

it's insane. I mean, like, Foxy Brown ends with like Pam Carey's character,

like, castrating a man, putting his genitalia in a pickle jar and giving it to his girlfriend.

You can't do that anymore.

I have no fear. Pam Greer is here as Foxy.

Hey Ben Mankiewicz here. I wanted to share more insights from a couple of leading black film scholars,

Donald Boggle and Raquel Gates. Donald and Raquel were heard throughout this season.

They spoke to us about Pam Greer, her movies, her star image, her talent,

as well as the joys and challenges of black exploitation.

Thanks for listening and joy.

Black exploitation is the results of a couple of different things that are happening.

One in the United States, the country is going through an economic recession.

And that matters because there isn't a ton of money in the film industry.

So you have this sort of scenario where the studios, they don't have money to make like the big budget type of films

that they would have done in the past. There's no budget for stuff like that.

And so what they do is they start outsourcing a lot of their labor.

That's why a lot of the films, including a lot of Pam Greer's stuff,

it's like it's shot in the Philippines, right? It's shot somewhere that's not here.

So the outsource a lot of labor, they take shots on directors and actors that they wouldn't have given a shot to before.

The other thing is that you have white flight happening.

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