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Now considered a cult classic in some circles, the film did not win over critics with its exploitive nature.
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Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
For this demographic, Detroit was once a mirage, an urban escape from an exploitive agricultural lifestyle enshrouded in trauma and grief.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
The Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
In Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story, producers examine the life of Joe Francis, the founder of the multimillion-dollar franchise that profited off of exploitive videos featuring young spring breakers baring their breasts for T-shirts and hats.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 30 Mar. 2025
For this demographic, Detroit was once a mirage, an urban escape from an exploitive agricultural lifestyle enshrouded in trauma and grief.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
The Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
In Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story, producers examine the life of Joe Francis, the founder of the multimillion-dollar franchise that profited off of exploitive videos featuring young spring breakers baring their breasts for T-shirts and hats.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Exploitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploitive. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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