Sentence examples for exploitation style from inspiring English sources

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Ridley Scott's masterly road movie was a feminist thriller in the Cormanesque exploitation style but with a much bigger budget and greater poise.

They understood European cinema and had learned from the Cahiers du Cinéma critic-directors to respect American masters such as Hawks, Hitchcock, Ford, Walsh et al. They dominated the decade after Coppola had brought together the Hollywood gangster tradition, Visconti's historic grandeur and Roger Corman's exploitation style in The Godfather (1972).

Some exploitation style documentaries purported to show actual events but were instead staged, elaborate ruses.

Rosemary's Baby had been a big hit, but it had little in common with the exploitation style.

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It has strong language, alcohol, drugs and exploitation-style violence.

Altogether tougher is Viva Riva! (2010, Metrodome, 15), an exploitation-style thriller, which does for the streets of Kinshasa what City of God did for Rio.

The term is also now used loosely to refer to some higher-budgeted, mainstream films with exploitation-style content, usually in genres traditionally associated with the B movie.

With the majors having exited traditional B production and exploitation-style promotion becoming standard practice at the lower end of the industry, "exploitation" became a way to refer to the entire field of low-budget genre films.

Its greatest influence, though, derived from its clever subversion of genre clichés and the connection made between its exploitation-style imagery, low-cost, truly independent means of production, and high profitability.

That film, about a doctor who goes undercover into the world of drug addicts to learn about his wife's death only to become addicted to marijuana himself, was not as successful as other exploitation-style efforts as the public was more concerned about drug use by younger people.

The 1960s would see exploitation-style themes and imagery become increasingly central to the realm of the B. Exploitation movies in the original sense continued to appear: 1961's Damaged Goods, a cautionary tale about a young lady whose boyfriend's promiscuity leads to venereal disease, comes complete with enormous, grotesque closeups of VD's physical effects.

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