Word: exploitationism
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How about knowing they're only characters? Several Dysson pitchees had taken the suicide reports quite seriously and were not amused to learn that someone had been playing with their head. "You should be ashamed of yourself," wrote New York Times technology columnist Denise Caruso. "This is the most unbelievably...
Richard Corliss's piece "Sex! Violence! Trash!" on so-called exploitation movies of the past belongs in the third category because of its lack of focus and misinformation [CINEMA, July 7]. Corliss branded my father, Edgar G. Ulmer, "the vagabond king of grade-Z films." My father's films did...
Corliss implies grind-house films are all the rage today simply because they are ridiculous. Like they're cool because they're so awful. I don't think so. We do not love exploitation films because we want to relive a past decade of innocence. Exploitation filmmakers have proved that...
The Chinese communists wrote their "Atlas of Shame" to document colonial exploitation, but why don't they record the brutal human-rights violations that have occurred in China since they took over?
Francis Ford Coppola made nudie films; Martin Scorsese's first feature went out on the grind circuit. Meyer (with his giddy editing style), Radley Metzger (who made elegant variations on Euro-smut) and R.L. Frost (a versatile imagist, heavy on the rough stuff) could have played in the majors. But...