hicksploitation

Noun

hixploitation (uncountable)

1. A genre of exploitation film that relies on the stereotypical (and often negative) depiction of rural whites of the American South and Appalachia.
   • The apotheosis of the hixploitation movement was Smokey and the Bandit (1977), the directorial debut of Tennessee-born veteran stuntman Hal Needham, who actually cast Mel Tillis, Foster Brooks, and Ruth Buzzi for unironic effect.2006, David Kamp, Lawrence Levi, The Film Snob*s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge, Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 48