The Style of Sleaze : : The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977 / / Calum Waddell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Waddell, Calum,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in American Cinema : TAC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1. Not Quite Hollywood --; 2. Emerging from Another Era – Narrative and Style in Modern Exploitation Cinema --; 3. Can We Call It Sexploitation? --; 4. Sex Morality Plays: Character in Adult Cinema --; 5. The Body is Everything: Sexploitation Spectacle --; 6. Exploitation-Horror Cinema --; 7. Cannibalising Tradition: Romero’s Zombies and a Blood Feast --; 8. Slash and Burn: The Exploitation-Horror Film in Transition --; 9. Blaxploitation Cinema: Race and Rebellion --; 10. Sex, Violence and Urban Escape: Blaxploitation Tropes and Tales --; 11. The Blaxploitation Female --; 12. Exploitation as a Movement --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474409261; 9783110780437
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474409261?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Calum Waddell.

Examines the American exploitation film – blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation – between 1959 and 1977What is an exploitation film? The Style of Sleaze reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations – blaxploitation, horror and sexploitation – indicate a concurrent evolution of filmmaking that could be seen as an identifiable cinematic movement. Offering a fresh perspective on studies of marginal cinema, The Style of Sleaze maintains that defining exploitation cinema as a vaguely attributed 'excess' is unhelpful, and instead concludes that this period in American film history produced a number of the most transgressive, and yet morally complex, motion pictures ever made.