Exploitation Films

Essay # 60019

Exploitation Films

This paper discusses the various types of exploitation films and why they offend so many people and yet appeal to so many others.

2,274 words () | 4 sources | MLA | 2003 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how the term exploitation film comes from the practice of exploitation, advertising or promotional techniques and looks at how these types of films are not cast with big stars and therefore need controversial issues to gain attention. Topics covered include sex hygiene films, censorship, drug and vice films.

From the Paper:

"Exotic films became known as pseudo-ethnographic. They would depict scenes from everyday life and rituals of other cultures. Karl G. Heider defined ethnography as "a way of making a detailed description and analysis of human behavior based on long-term observational study on the spot" (Schaefer 266). One early ethnographic film was Nanook of the North. This film helped lay the foundation for the exotic exploitation film. The film that started exotic exploitation was Ingagi, which is often classified as a horror film. Ingagi is about the exploration of the Congo to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe (imdb.com)."