Nazisploitation
English edit
Etymology edit
Nazi + -sploitation
Noun edit
Nazisploitation (uncountable)
- (film) A subgenre of exploitation film that involves villainous Nazis committing criminal acts of a sexual nature, typically against people held in their concentration camps and prisons during World War II.
- 2008 August 14, Nathan Lee, “Nazisploitation Making a Comeback”, in The New York Times:
- You should see “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS,” the notorious sleazefest now considered a touchstone of the Nazisploitation craze of the 1970s.
- 2010, Claire M. Hall, “Where Does Evil Sit in the Classroom?: Problematizing Teaching about Hitler, Nasty Nazis, and the Holocaust”, in Sara Buttsworth, Maartje M. Abbenhuis, editors, Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-war Popular Culture, Praeger, →ISBN, page 227:
- As a result, Nazisploitation has ensured that Nazi evil has had an impressive staying power.
- 2012, Benedikt Eppenberger, “Eine Armee Gretchen: Nazisploitation Made in Switzerland”, in Daniel H. Magilow, Elizabeth Bridges, Kristin T. Vander Lugt, editors, Nazisploitation!: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Cinema and Culture, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 155:
- In general, Nazisploitation movies encompass those that use the fascination of Nazi imagery, ideology, symbols and artifacts to increase its commercial appeal.
Further reading edit
Nazisploitation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
