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

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.

xii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"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.

Filmography: p. [345]-387.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-458) and index.

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.