Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-201) and index.
Contents:
12. Exploitation as a Movement. 2. Emerging from Another Era -- Narrative and Style in Modern Exploitation Cinema -- 3. Can We Call It Sexploitation? -- 4. Sex Morality Plays: Character in Adult Cinema -- 5. Body is Everything: Sexploitation Spectacle -- 6. Exploitation-Horror Cinema -- 7. Cannibalising Tradition: Romero's Zombies and a Blood Feast -- 8. Slash and Burn: The Exploitation-Horror Film in Transition -- 9. Blaxploitation Cinema: Race and Rebellion -- 10. Sex, Violence and Urban Escape: Blaxploitation Tropes and Tales -- 11. Blaxploitation Female -- 12. Exploitation as a Movement.
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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