dwarfsploitation
English
Etymology
dwarf + -sploitation
Noun
dwarfsploitation (uncountable)
- The exploitation of little people in the media (especially film and television).
- 2000, Marc Spitz, "All The Small Things: Deconstructing Dwarfsploitation in Music Videos", Spin, September 2000, page 70 (used in title only)
- 2011, C. M. Dabbah, The House of Shades, Red Lead Press (2011), →ISBN, page 119:
- I'm 3'8" tall. I'm realistic. I'm never going to be a leading man, unless some clueless script writer get's[sic] it into his head to write a dwarfsploitation film.
- 2014, "Badly-dubbed bad guys get punched in the crotch... a lot", The Weekend, Issue 95, 14 March 2014, page 40:
- A genre in its own right, For Y'ur Height Only completely corners the spy-martial arts-dwarfsploitation market that the world was crying out for in 1981.