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

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.

Table of Contents

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