Meaning & use
teensploitation
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Meaning
noununcountable
A genre of films that use teenage characters and youth culture to attract young audiences, often with sensational or exploitative content.
Grammar: Usually uncountable; can be used with 'a' when referring to a specific film or type: a teensploitation movie.
Patterns
- teensploitation film
- teensploitation genre
The director is known for his teensploitation movies of the 1980s.
Critics accused the studio of making teensploitation that relied on stereotypes.
The festival featured a retrospective on teensploitation.
Common combinations
- teensploitation film
- She wrote her thesis on teensploitation films of the 1990s.
- teensploitation genre
- The teensploitation genre often mixes comedy with drama.
- teensploitation movie
- That teensploitation movie was a surprise hit at the box office.
Synonyms and how they differ
- exploitation film
- A broader term for films that exploit a subject for commercial gain; teensploitation is a specific subgenre focused on teenagers.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'teensploitation' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Option 0 correctly uses 'teensploitation' as a noun modifier meaning 'related to the teensploitation genre'. The other options incorrectly use it as a verb or a personal quality.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “teensploitation”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.