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Author Schaefer, Eric, 1959-

Title "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" [electronic resource] : a history of exploitation films, 1919-1959 / Eric Schaefer.

Imprint Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 474 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Filmography: p. [345]-387.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-458) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Sensationalism in motion pictures.
Exploitation films.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 0822323532 0822323745 (DLC) 99012439
Standard No. 2027/heb08295 hdl

 
    
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