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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
Artsploitation is a relatively new term, possibly coined by Steve Erickson in his review of Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance for Gay City News. He cites Takashi Miike's Audition and Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl as examples and notes, "Such artsploitation films combine extremes of sex and violence with stylistic choices, slow pacing, and an openness to wide tonal shifts alien to ordinary genre films. Needless to say, this development hasn’t been greeted with cheers everywhere. Nor have any artsploitation films become major U.S. hits.[1]

In the United States, since the mid 1990s, the names Quentin Tarantino and Matthew Bright (Freeway (1996)) are associated with the term artsploitation.

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