Style of Sleaze

Calum Waddell is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he also received his PhD. His previous work includes The Style of Sleaze, The American Exploitation Film (2018), Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (2021), South African Horror Cinema (2025), and the edited collection The Films of Wes Craven (2023). He has occasionally worked on producing bonus content and documentary work for Blu-ray labels and documented the “gory glory” days of grindhouse cinema with his feature-length nostalgia-trip 42nd Street Memories (2015).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Not Quite HollywoodChapter Two: Emerging From Another Era - Narrative And Style in Modern Exploitation CinemaChapter Three: Can We Call It Sexploitation?Chapter Four: Sex Morality Plays: Character in Adult CinemaChapter Five: The Body Is Everything: Sexploitation SpectacleChapter Six: Exploitation-Horror CinemaChapter Seven: Cannibalising Tradition: Romero’s Zombies and A Blood FeastChapter Eight: Slash and Burn: The Exploitation-Horror Film in TransitionChapter Nine: Blaxploitation Cinema: Race and RebellionChapter Ten: Sex, Violence and Urban Escape: Blaxploitation Tropes and TalesChapter Eleven: The Blaxploitation FemaleChapter Twelve: Exploitation as a Movement

In its focus on the taboo-breaking and transgressive elements of 1970s exploitation cinema, The Style of Sleaze is set to be as important a publication in this area as Eric Schaefer's Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A recognition to the importance of further study into the wonderful world of American "trash" cinema.