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

## 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.