dwarfsploitation
Definitions
The exploitation of little people in the media (especially film and television).
Examples
“2000, Marc Spitz, "All The Small Things: Deconstructing Dwarfsploitation in Music Videos", Spin⟳, September 2000, page 70 (used in title only)”
“I'm 3'8" tall. I'm realistic. I'm never going to be a leading man, unless some clueless script writer get's^([sic]) it into his head to write⟳ a dwarfsploitation film.”
“A genre in its own⟳ right, For Y'ur Height Only completely corners the spy-martial arts-dwarfsploitation market that the world was crying out for in 1981.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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