SYSK Selects: How Exploitation Films Work

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🗓️ 19 August 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In today's SYSK Select episode, we learn about exploitation films. During the 1930s-80s, the work of directors operating in the shadows of Hollywood led to explorations in sexuality and violence that mainstream cinema wouldn't touch. Join Chuck and Josh a

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:31.7	Hey everybody, this is Chuck and welcome to this week's edition of the Stuff You Should Know
0:35.9	Saturday Curated Selects.
0:39.2	This week I decided to go with how exploitation films work from April 14, 2011.
0:45.5	And this one was an easy pick because I like all of our movie episodes and I think Josh
0:52.2	might have put this one together way back in the day when we recorded it.
0:55.0	It was just really cool and not only do we get to talk a lot about just some of the
1:00.3	great exploitation films but just a little bit about the history and how they came about.
1:05.3	So I just remember really enjoying recording this one and got great feedback on it.
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1:32.1	I'm Josh Clark.
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