Title: "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!" : a history of exploitation films, 1919-1959 /
Authors: Schaefer, Eric, 1959-
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Sensationalism in motion pictures.; Exploitation films.
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.