"Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" : a history of exploitation films, 1919-1959 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schaefer, Eric, 1959-
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • "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.