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Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that eschews the
expense of quality productions in favor of making films
inexpensively, attracting viewers by exciting their more
prurient interests. "Exploitation" is a term in the
movie industry meaning promotion or advertising.
Example of Scene from
Exploitation Movie
Exploitation films rely heavily on the lurid advertising
of their content rather than the intrinsic quality of
the film.
Exploitation films may feature forbidden sex, wanton
violence, drug use, nudity, freaks, gore, the bizarre,
destruction, rebellion and mayhem.
Such films have
existed since the earliest days of moviemaking, but they
were popularized in the 1960s with the general relaxing
of cinematic taboos in the U.S. and Europe.
Since the
1990s, this genre has also received attention from
academic circles, where it is sometimes called paracinema.
Exploitation film - The Film Encyclopedia
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