In cinema, “exploitation” is loosely defined as a subcategory of lo-fi B-movies exploring lurid subject matter in a hard genre context. Exploitation had its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s with groundbreaking yet extremely controversial hits like Cannibal Holocaust, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and I Spit on Your Grave.
There are plenty of subgenres within the realm of exploitation: slashers, women-in-prison, spaghetti westerns. Blaxploitation movies like Coffy and Shaft empowered Black
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