Jewsploitation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Jew + -sploitation.
Noun
[edit]Jewsploitation (uncountable)
- (film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on Jews and Jewish experiences.
- 2002 July, Diane Vadino, “Movie News”, in Spin, page 47:
- The Hebrew Hammer may very well be the first "Jewsploitation" comedy, but star Adam Goldberg promises the film avoids the truly offensive.
- 2003 December 10, Liz Spikol, “Hammer Time”, in Philadelphia Weekly:
- Saturday night I went to the Gershman Y to see the new "Jewsploitation" film The Hebrew Hammer, which I'm guessing is going to raise some hackles in the same way my headline did.
- 2007 November 15, Gregg Goldstein, “Eisenberg, Bartha in the 'Holy' land”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
- The film, one of the first to emerge from the burgeoning "Jewsploitation" genre, is ripped from true-crime headlines and follows an impressionable youth (Eisenberg) from an Orthodox Brooklyn community.