The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959 - 1977

by Calum Waddell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474431835
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	12/10/2019
Series:	Traditions in American Cinema
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Calum Waddell gained his PhD at the University of Aberdeen and teaches at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

In its focus on the taboo-breaking and transgressive elements of 1970s exploitation cinema, The Style of Sleaze is set to be as important a publication in this area as Eric Schaefer's Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A recognition to the importance of further study into the wonderful world of American "trash" cinema.

Mikel J. Koven

In its focus on the taboo-breaking and transgressive elements of 1970s exploitation cinema, The Style of Sleaze is set to be as important a publication in this area as Eric Schaefer's Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A recognition to the importance of further study into the wonderful world of American "trash" cinema.

Editorial Reviews

In its focus on the taboo-breaking and transgressive elements of 1970s exploitation cinema, The Style of Sleaze is set to be as important a publication in this area as Eric Schaefer's Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A recognition to the importance of further study into the wonderful world of American "trash" cinema.

Mikel J. Koven