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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Traditions in American Cinema : TAC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations
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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