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Informationen zum Autor Calum Waddell gained his PhD at the University of Aberdeen. His published works include Jack Hill: The Exploitation and Blaxploitation Master, and RoboCop: The Definitive History and Cannibal Holocaust. He has also written extensively for newsstand publications that include SFX, Sci-Fi Now, Total Film and Dazed. His work as a documentary director include 42nd Street Memories and Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever. Klappentext 'In its focus on the taboo-breaking and transgressive elements of 1970s exploitation cinema, it 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, University of WorcesterWhat 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 book 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 gained his PhD at the University of Aberdeen.Cover image: poster art for Night of the Living Dead (1968) © Continental Distributing Inc./PhotofestCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-0925-4Barcode Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Not Quite HollywoodChapter Two: Emerging From Another Era - Narrative And Style in Modern Exploitation CinemaChapter Three: Can We Call It Sexploitation?Chapter Four: Sex Morality Plays: Character in Adult CinemaChapter Five: The Body Is Everything: Sexploitation SpectacleChapter Six: Exploitation-Horror CinemaChapter Seven: Cannibalising Tradition: Romero's Zombies and A Blood FeastChapter Eight: Slash and Burn: The Exploitation-Horror Film in TransitionChapter Nine: Blaxploitation Cinema: Race and RebellionChapter Ten: Sex, Violence and Urban Escape: Blaxploitation Tropes and TalesChapter Eleven: The Blaxploitation FemaleChapter Twelve: Exploitation as a Movement...
