exploitation cinema

American  

[ek-sploi-tay-shuhn sin-uh-muh] / ˌɛk splɔɪˈteɪ ʃən ˈsɪn ə mə /

noun

1. exploitation film.

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Example Sentences

To honor the recent loss of Roger Corman, the king of exploitation cinema, the service has re-upped its birthday tribute to the filmmaker.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

“In Fabric” is the latest blissfully deranged B-movie homage from the British-born writer-director Peter Strickland, who over the past several years has become a witty and imaginative fetishist of various strains of exploitation cinema.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2019

For the term persists, not just with reference to low-budget genre or exploitation cinema, but to major-league studio productions made in the same spirit of carefree scrappiness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2018

In the spirit of great exploitation cinema past, Blood Drive's plot is more an excuse for gore than an actual narrative.

From The Verge • Jun. 27, 2017

But there’s a certain conceptual purity to this film – the purity of exploitation cinema and community theater, swirled into a strange combo – that leaves me indisposed to mockery.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2015