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Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! : A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 /

'Trash films' purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behaviour, drug use and vice that the mainstream Hollywood film industry could not show. Setting these exploitation films in their historical context, and organising them according to the social problems they addressed, Schaef...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schaefer, Eric, 1959-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 1999.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • "An attempt to 'commercialize vice'": origins of the exploitation film
  • "A hodge-podge of cuttings and splicings": the mode of production and the style of classical exploitation films
  • "You gotta tell'em to sell'em": distribution, advertising, and exhibition of exploitation films
  • "Thoroughly vile and disgusting": the exploitation film and censorship
  • "No false modesty, no old-fashioned taboos": the sex hygiene film
  • "The monster that caters to thrill-hungry youth": the drug film
  • "Timely as today's front page": vice, exotic, and atrocity films
  • "They wear no clothes!": nudist and burlesque films
  • Conclusion: the end of classical exploitation.