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

By Calum Waddell

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781474409261
DOI
10.1515/9781474409261
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4180508 bytes)
Pages
216\215
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 03:01:24

Description

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, 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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