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

by Calum Waddell

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474431836
• ISBN13: 9781474431835
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"