The style of sleaze : the American exploitation film, 1959-1977 / Calum Waddell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waddell, Calum, author.

Series:

Traditions in American cinema.

Traditions in American Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exploitation films--United States.

Exploitation films.

Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3183-6

1-4744-4962-X

1-4744-0926-1

1-4744-0927-X

OCLC:

1306541631