The Body is Everything: Sexploitation Spectacle

With a close focus on the hardcore blockbuster ‘The Devil in Miss Jones’, this chapter discusses how the sexploitation film evolved, stylistically, into a form that challenged audiences and critics to – briefly – question where or not these might be even radical art cinema. The style of the sexploitation film is argued to have hit a new peak with this particular motion picture which defined the genre for its era but ultimately also indicated that it might have nowhere else to go other than glossier reproductions of the sex spectacle itself.