Meanings
- uncountablebroadcastingA genre of low-budget films produced in Australia, chiefly during the 1970s and 1980s.
The name was originally explained on the event's website as being inspired by 1974 Ozploitation film, Stone, about motor bike gangs.
2014, Hilary Du Cros, Lee Jolliffe, The Arts and Events, Routledge, →ISBN, page 742 more examples
While a number of Ozploitation films conformed to the 'trashy' aesthetics and marginal audience reception that historically characterizes exploitation cinema, a notable handful display production values considerably higher than those connoted by the term itself, and also experienced significant box office success, both in Australia and, at times, internationally.
2010, Ben Goldsmith, Geoffrey Lealand, editors, Australia and New Zealand, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 239While the film is rich with moments of explicit sexual threat — most notably the naked photographs and Sparks' attempted rape — the image of Jessica tied to the front of the ute remains one of the most excessive and horrific images of violence against women not only in Australian “Ozploitation” film, but in rape-revenge as a whole.
2011, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study, McFarland & Company (201), page 111
Origin
From Oz (“Australia”) + -sploitation.
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