Overview

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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Author:   Calum Waddell (Lecturer in Film, University of Aberdeen)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781474431835

ISBN 10:   1474431836
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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

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"

Author Information

Calum Waddell is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he also received his PhD. His previous work includes The Style of Sleaze, The American Exploitation Film (2018), Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (2021), South African Horror Cinema (2025), and the edited collection The Films of Wes Craven (2023). He has occasionally worked on producing bonus content and documentary work for Blu-ray labels and documented the “gory glory” days of grindhouse cinema with his feature-length nostalgia-trip 42nd Street Memories (2015).

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