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Author Waddell, Calum, author.

Title The style of sleaze : the American exploitation film, 1959-1977 / Calum Waddell
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) : illustrations
Series Traditions in American cinema
Traditions in American cinema.
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 -- The 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 -- The 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Exploitation films -- United States -- History and criticism
Blaxploitation films -- United States -- History and criticism
Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism
Motion pictures -- United States -- History and criticism
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Horror films
Exploitation films
Motion pictures
Blaxploitation films
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474409261
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9781474409278
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