The Style of Sleaze

The American Exploitation Film, 1959 - 1977

Calum Waddell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474409254 (ISBN)

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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.

Calum Waddell is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he also received his PhD. His previous work includes The Style of Sleaze, The American Exploitation Film (2018), Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (2021), South African Horror Cinema (2025), and the edited collection The Films of Wes Craven (2023). He has occasionally worked on producing bonus content and documentary work for Blu-ray labels and documented the “gory glory” days of grindhouse cinema with his feature-length nostalgia-trip 42nd Street Memories (2015).

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: Not Quite Hollywood

Chapter Two: Emerging From Another Era - Narrative And Style in Modern Exploitation Cinema

Chapter Three: Can We Call It Sexploitation?

Chapter Four: Sex Morality Plays: Character in Adult Cinema

Chapter Five: The Body Is Everything: Sexploitation Spectacle

Chapter Six: Exploitation-Horror Cinema

Chapter Seven: Cannibalising Tradition: Romero’s Zombies and A Blood Feast

Chapter Eight: Slash and Burn: The Exploitation-Horror Film in Transition

Chapter Nine: Blaxploitation Cinema: Race and Rebellion

Chapter Ten: Sex, Violence and Urban Escape: Blaxploitation Tropes and Tales

Chapter Eleven: The Blaxploitation Female

Chapter Twelve: Exploitation as a Movement

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2018
Reihe/Serie	Traditions in American Cinema
Zusatzinfo	12 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781474409254 / 9781474409254
Zustand	Neuware