drugsploitation

English

Etymology

From drug +‎ -sploitation.

Noun

drugsploitation (uncountable)

  1. (film) A genre of exploitation films which focus on the use of recreational drugs, typically featuring lurid scenes of drug-induced behaviour framed as a cautionary tale/morality play.
    • 2004, Irv Slifkin, VideoHound's Groovy Movies: Far-out Films of the Psychedelic Era, Visible Ink Press, →ISBN, page 201:
      Meanwhile, newfangled drugsploitation flicks like Maryjane and The Hooked Generation invaded drive-ins, providing cautionary tales while the smell of those funny scented cigarettes filled the night air.
    • 2006, David Boothroyd, Culture on Drugs: Narco-cultural Studies of High Modernity‎[1], Manchester University Press, →ISBN:
      Such shots are to be found throughout the genre from early 'drug hysteria' and 'drugsploitation' movies through to its most recent examples.
    • 2006, Barney Hoskyns, Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends, Wiley, →ISBN, page 61:
      Fonda persuaded director Roger Corman to hire the band for his drugsploitation movie The Trip, a paean to LSD scripted by Jack Nicholson.
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