Meaning of whitesploitation | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.

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Examples

“While the Pam Grier Collection has "Foxy Brown," "Coffy," and "Friday Foster," The Elvis Gift Set (Paramount, $59.80) offers five classic whitesploitation flicks: "Fun in Acapulco," "G. I. Blues," "Paradise, Hawaiian Style," "Blue Hawaii" and "King Creole."”

“You had whitesploitation films, too: Chained Heat, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and all that junk.”

“What Ken never understood was that the only thing Harold and I really excelled at was fucking around—coming up with idiotic ideas and filthy daydreams, projects like the pornographic version of The Cat in the Hat, the whitesploitation film Kung-Fu Honky, […]”

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