carsploitation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From car + -sploitation.
Noun
[edit]carsploitation (uncountable)
- (film) A genre of exploitation films focused on cars, typified by scenes of racing and crashing.
- 2008 August 27, Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff, “Total Drag (Race)”, in Santa Fe Reporter:
- Death Race is a rehash of the 1975 carsploitation flick Death Race 2000 that predicted a new millennium in which David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone mow down old people for points.
- 2011 June 2, Randall King, chapter DVD, in Winnipeg Free Press:
- Cage redefines "up for anything" in this goofy carsploitation movie as a vengeful grandpa on the trail of devil-worshippers who have slaughtered his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter for sacrificial purposes.
- 2014, Claire Henry, Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 164–165:
- The film hurtles toward tragic inevitability like Vanishing Point, the classic carsploitation film that Death Proof revises with the triumph of the collective.