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The style of sleaze : the American exploitation film, 1959-1977

Waddell, Calum, author

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Examines the American exploitation film - blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation - between 1959-1977. 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.

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• 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.
• ISBN: 1474409253, 9781474409254

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1995.9.S284 W33 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE