Eric Schaefer

Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!

A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The exploitation film has enjoyed a cult following as 'turkey cinema, ' 'trash, ' midnight movie camp, psychotronic cinema, and the object of ridicule on "Mystery Science Theater 3000." Yet Schaefer's book shows us that it must be central to any understanding of the way Hollywood cinema operates. This groundbreaking work will open up an entirely new field of film history."--Henry Jenkins, author of "Science Fiction Audiences: Watching "Doctor Who" and "Star Trek

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 164mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323532
• ISBN-10: 0822323532
• Artikelnr.: 21420276

Autorenporträt

Eric Schaefer is Assistant Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College in Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledments
Introduction: “As Long as It Was in Bad Taste!”
> “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
> Appendix 1 - Major Exploitation Producers/Distributors and Their
Company Names
Appendix 2 - Filmography
Appendix 3 - Video Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index