Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. viii, 207 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Series statement

1. Traditions in American cinema

Uniform title

1. Traditions in American cinema.

Subject

1. Exploitation films > United States > History and criticism
2. Blaxploitation films > United States > History and criticism
3. Horror films > United States > History and criticism
4. Motion pictures > United States > History and criticism
5. Blaxploitation films
6. Exploitation films
7. Horror films
8. Motion pictures
9. United States

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Machine generated contents note: 1. Not Quite Hollywood -- 2. Emerging from Another Era -- Narrative and Style in Modern Exploitation Cinema -- 3. Can We Call It Sexploitation? -- 4. Sex Morality Plays: Character in Adult Cinema -- 5. Body is Everything: Sexploitation Spectacle -- 6. Exploitation-Horror Cinema -- 7. Cannibalising Tradition: Romero's Zombies and a Blood Feast -- 8. Slash and Burn: The Exploitation-Horror Film in Transition -- 9. Blaxploitation Cinema: Race and Rebellion -- 10. Sex, Violence and Urban Escape: Blaxploitation Tropes and Tales -- 11. Blaxploitation Female -- 12. Exploitation as a Movement.

Call number

1. MFL 18-2426

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index.

Author

1. Waddell, Calum, author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Traditions in American cinema
2. Traditions in American cinema.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index.

ISBN

1. 1474409253 hardcover
2. 9781474409254 hardcover

Research call number

1. MFL 18-2426