nunsploitation
nunsploitation noun: a genre of exploitation film focusing on Christian nuns.
Noun
nunsploitation (uncountable)
- A genre of exploitation film focusing on Christian nuns.
- Making nunsploitation films also appealed to producers because, as with peplums and westerns, it was possible to recycle sets and costumes and therefore lower production costs.2004, Tamao Nakahara, “Barred Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films”, in Ernest Mathijs, editor, Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 126
- Perhaps the world's first nunsploitation film, it centres on a morphine-addicted nun recovering from neurosurgery, who is accused of a series of horrific murders.2008 July 4, “Random top tens: The least convincing nuns ever”, in The Scotsman
Origin of nunsploitation
From nun + -sploitation.
Questions about nunsploitation
- What does nunsploitation mean?
- Nunsploitation means a genre of exploitation film focusing on Christian nuns.
- What part of speech is nunsploitation?
- Nunsploitation is a noun.
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