... reluctant to reduce the final running time to less than 120 minutes. This proved to be the first obstacle in finding a US distributor: the running time caused concerns for sales agents, who thought it too long for an exploitation movie. Dawn of the Dead challenged industry wisdom that horror films could...

... Pierre Baucom Ian Lubaina Himid Abraham Lincoln Cotton Famine American Civil War slavery multi-dimensional memory ballads exploitation race class agency revolution solidarity working class historiography activism violence trauma The global, historical importance of cotton is key...

...Despite being the product of Roger Corman's AIP exploitation studio, House of Usher enjoys a high standing. But while the impact and cult status of Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle is often discussed in histories of gothic, horror, and exploitation cinema, no extended analysis...

...Ransom A. Myers studies three Newfoundland bays in order to test Scott Gordon’s maxim that renewable resource exploitation becomes unprofitable over time as new exploiters enter the system until profit margins reach zero. He uses a thorough collection of data for each bay, and determines...

...Chris Reid considers Latin American fisheries and their contribution to the worldwide exploitation of maritime animal populations, with particular focus on Peruvian fisheries and their economic and political impediments, growth within the 1950s and 1960s, and turbulance in the 1970s and 1980s...

... legislation to protect the remaining seals, and deems the decision belated at best. Over-Exploitation of Seals Louis Vernet United Provinces Lieutenant R. C. Moody Seal Fur Seal Stocks In November 1820 the United Provinces de la Plata despatched Col. Daniel Jewitt to the Falkland Islands on the frigate...

... in relation to the developing anti-capitalist movement. The chapter also describes the key differences in the strategies advocated by the various actors involved in the campaign against child exploitation. child labour Cunningham Steve Lavalette Michael NGOs No Sweats campaign trade unions International...

... of enslavement (slavery); forms of exploitation reminiscent of slavery (metaphorical slavery); stigmatisation based on inherited or putative slave status (categorical slavery); and exogenous discourses opening up new fields of thought and action based on the notion of slavery (extraverted slavery). afrocentrism...

...A bibliography of post-graduate theses concerning Oil, subdivided into Historical and Modern Studies, and exploring the topics as follows: Seabed Exploitation; Offshore Operations; the North Sea; and Other Locations. Oil Seabed Exploitation North Sea Pollution Oil Pollution Oil Industry...

.... In the United States, at least, this overshadowed Norman Jewison's desire to make a picture critiquing corporate power and rising violence in sport, contributed to its poor critical reception as an exploitation film, and even fuelled short-lived speculation that Rollerball might become a real sport. The chapter...

... smooths the audience's experience of a passage of pure exposition, but also qualifies their enjoyment in a way that produces a comic shudder. The chapter then considers exploitation cinema and exploitation film spectatorship. The film's association of a desiring female subject with fear raises...

... exploitation film with a newly filmed bloody, if unconvincing conclusion, only served to consolidate the belief that somewhere, at some time, someone was killed on camera in an attack that was as much about the sexual gratification of the film’s intended audience, as it was about the commercial rewards...

...Offers a brief international history of black oppression, exploitation and misrepresentation. The significant gains born out of the freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s are noted and reflected upon in the context of the persistent injustices and discrimination experienced by African-descended...

... characterised Halloween as an exercise in style, and freely uses the term ‘exploitation film’ to describe it. The chapter then considers the relationship between Halloween and the slasher film. It also assesses the role of urban legend themes in Halloween, and how the film evokes...

...This chapter explains why vampirism is often seen as a metaphor for capitalist exploitation as vampires are often portrayed to prey on the weak. It analyses movie monsters, especially vampires, that have always offered a multiplicity of metaphors that are sometimes overlapping or purely subjective...

... and the cultural construction of women as closer to the being of animals. The chapter discusses science fiction texts that exemplify the similarity between the exploitation of animals and the exploitation of women, and argues that a better understanding of this oppression is valuable for feminists and for those...

... and exploitation of women under totalitarian rule. Both authors focus on the sex-based fascistic partitioning that divides the private from the public sphere and relegates women to the domestic sector; both investigate how female reproductive functions are exploited and used to prop up the specious patriarchal...

... practices and the possibility of illegal sealing - are examined in depth but fail to offer a suitable answer. The volume concludes by affirming the dormancy of the Falklands sealing trade, and considers this important, informative chapter of maritime history closed. Seal Over-Exploitation Stealing...