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'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 Worcester
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 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.
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List 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
About the author
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.
