European exploitation (culture)
Parents: European culture - exploitation culture
By region: British exploitation - French exploitation - German exploitation - Italian exploitation
The roots of European exploitation culture can easily be traced from the 18th and 19th centuries' darker strains of romanticism and the gothic novel to the late 19th century decadent movement. In the 20th century European exploitation culture found its outlet primarily in exploitation movies and in adult comic books.[Dec 2006]
Soledad Miranda
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Immoral Tales: Sex And Horror Cinema In Europe 1956-1984 (1994) - Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] more ...
Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema [Amazon FR] more ...
Related (20th century): Euro chic - European horror - European comics - "Euro girls" - "Euro trash" - giallo - Hammer studios - horrotica - German expressionism - Glittering Images (publisher) - Italian cinema - Italian erotica - Italian horror - Midi Minuit Fantastique (magazine) - nazi exploitation cinema - nunsploitation - sleaze - trash
Actresses: Lina Romay - Ewa Aulin - Florinda Bolkan - Edwige Fenech - Hedy Lamarr - Christina Lindberg - Soledad Miranda - Rosalba Neri - Barbara Steele
Film directors: Mac Ahlberg - Joe D'Amato - Dario Argento - Mario Bava - Jose Benazeraf - Walerian Borowczyk - Tinto Brass - Jess Franco - Hofbauer - Just Jaeckin - Francis Leroi - Bigas Luna - Jose Larraz - Claude Mulot - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Max Pecas - Jean Rollin
Compare: American exploitation culture
Bibliography: The Romantic Agony (1930) - Mario Praz - Dreamers of Decadence (1969) - Philippe Jullian - Blood and Roses : Vampires in 19th Century Literature (1992) - Adele Olivia Gladwell - Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984 (1994) - The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (1998) - Asti Hustvedt - Psychopathia Sexualis in Italian Sinema (1968 - 1972)
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