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

Calum Waddell

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

The Style of Sleaze

The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977

Calum Waddell

In the series Traditions in American Cinema

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474409261

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Examines the American exploitation film – blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation – between 1959 and 1977

What 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Not Quite Hollywood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2. Emerging from Another Era – Narrative and Style in Modern Exploitation Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. Can We Call It Sexploitation? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. Sex Morality Plays: Character in Adult Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
5. The Body is Everything: Sexploitation Spectacle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
6. Exploitation-Horror Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7. Cannibalising Tradition: Romero’s Zombies and a Blood Feast Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
8. Slash and Burn: The Exploitation-Horror Film in Transition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
9. Blaxploitation Cinema: Race and Rebellion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
10. Sex, Violence and Urban Escape: Blaxploitation Tropes and Tales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
11. The Blaxploitation Female Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
12. Exploitation as a Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Other: 12 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474409261