Style of Sleaze

The American Exploitation Film, 1959 - 1977

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Calum Waddell, University of Aberdeen) Waddell, Calum (Lecturer in Film

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-10
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt336 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTraditions in American Cinema
Antal sidor216
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474431835

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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