sploitation nation

lets open up the old film snob's dictionary for another lesson.

todays word is: ~sploitation

Alt.-xploitation. useful suffix that imputes a sense of scuzziness to whatever topic it is attached to, resulting in an alluringly disreputable subgenre. derived from the words blaxsploitation, which itself combined the words black and exploitation to describe the early-seventies boom of black-character films that featured rampant drug-dealing, crime-fighting and outrageous 'fros. i rate babette's feast ahead of tampopo in the food-sploitation stakes.