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Author Waddell, Calum, author.

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

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Traditions in American cinema
Traditions in American cinema.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index.
Contents Not quite Hollywood -- Emerging from another era -- Narrative and style in modern exploitation cinema -- Can we call it sexploitation? -- Sex morality plays: character in adult cinema -- Body is everything: sexploitation spectacle -- Exploitation-horror cinema -- Cannibalising tradition: Romero's Zombies and a blood feast -- Slash and burn: the exploitation-horror film in transition -- Blaxploitation cinema: race and rebellion -- Sex, violence and urban escape: Blaxploitation tropes and tales -- Blaxploitation female -- Exploitation as a movement.
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.
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Subject Exploitation films -- United States.
Exploitation films.
United States.
Motion pictures -- United States -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Waddell, Calum. Style of sleaze. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 1474409253 (OCoLC)1012776182
ISBN 9781474409261 (electronic book)
1474409261 (electronic book)
9781474409254 (hardcover)
1474409253 (hardcover)