The Style of Sleaze

The American Exploitation Film, 1959 - 1977

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by Calum Waddell

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > United States

Keywords

exploitation films, United States

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Traditions in American Cinema

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 216 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-0925-4

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Book Presentation:
Examines the American exploitation film – blaxploitation, exploitation-horror and sexploitation – between 1959 and 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.

About the Author:
Calum Waddell is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Aberdeen

Press Reviews:
In its focus on the taboo-breaking and transgressive elements of 1970s exploitation cinema, The Style of Sleaze 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

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press