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

Examines the American exploitation film - blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation - between 1959 and 1977What 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,...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Traditions in American Cinema : TAC
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Zusammenfassung:Examines the American exploitation film - blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation - between 1959 and 1977What 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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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (216 Seiten) 12 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9781474409261

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