The style of sleaze : the American exploitation film, 1959-1977 /
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 blaxploit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Traditions in American cinema.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1474409253 9781474409254 |