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-ploitation
Commercial exploitation in film and other media.
English exploitation.
Well-established though informal examples are blaxploitation (containing a respelled blacks), the exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in films, and sexploitation, commercial exploitation of sex, sexual attractiveness, or sexually explicit material. Other inventions include teensploitation, poor quality films directed at and exploiting the teenage audience, and whitesploitation, contrasted with blaxploitation.
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