dwarfsploitation

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English

Etymology

From dwarf +‎ -sploitation.

Noun

dwarfsploitation (uncountable)

  1. 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, →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 it into his head to write a dwarfsploitation film.
    • 2014 March 14, “Badly-dubbed bad guys get punched in the crotch... a lot”, in The Weekend, number 95, 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.