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

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

Hardcover

Series: Traditions in American Cinema

Film StudiesFilmmakingFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 1474409253
ISBN13: 9781474409254
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jun 19 2018
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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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