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

Eric Schaefer 1999 © Duke University Press
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  • 9780822323532 (hardcover)
  • 9780822323747 (paper)
  • 9780822395966 (ebook)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction: "As Long as It Was in Bad Taste!" (page 1)
  • 1 "An Attempt to 'Commercialize Vice'": Origins of the Exploitation Film (page 17)
  • 2 "A Hodge-Podge of Cuttings and Splicings": The Mode of Production and the Style of Classical Exploitation Films (page 42)
  • 3 "You Gotta Tell 'Em to Sell 'Em: Distribution, Advertising, and Exhibition of Exploitation Films (page 96)
  • 4 "Thoroughly Vile and Disgusting": The Exploitation Film and Censorship (page 136)
  • 5 "No False Modesty, No Old-Fashioned Taboos": The Sex Hygiene Film (page 165)
  • 6 "The Monster That Caters to Thrill-Hungry Youth": The Drug Film (page 217)
  • 7 "Timely as Today's Front Page": Vice, Exotic, and Atrocity Films (page 253)
  • 8 "They Wear No Clothes!": Nudist and Burlesque Films (page 290)
  • 9 Conclusion: The End of Classical Exploitation (page 325)
  • Appendix 1 - Major Exploitation Producers/Distributors and Their Company Names (page 343)
  • Appendix 2 - Filmography (page 345)
  • Appendix 3 - Video Sources (page 389)
  • Notes (page 391)
  • Bibliography (page 445)
  • Index (page 459)
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JAH 87.4 (Mar. 2001): 1549-1550 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2674855
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