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Calum Waddell is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and the author of books focused on marginal genre cinema, such as The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film 1959-1977 (2018), which addresses some of the key blaxploitation cinema of the 1970s. His recent writing, including 'Cinethetic Racism and Orientalism in Early Italian Exploitation Films' (in Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration, 2020) and 'Savage Man, Savage Cinema - the Strange Undocumented Lineage of Arthur Davis' (In Film International, 2019), have continued his exploration of race representation in popular exploitation genre cycles. He has also written about film for such major newsstand magazines as Dazed, Infinity, SFX, Total Film and many more. Waddell's documentary work includes Me Me Lai Bites Back (2016), an acclaimed look at the life of one of Britain's formative Southeast Asian film stars, A Very English Exploitation: Inseminoid and the Shock Cinema of Norman J. Warren (2020) and The Last Word on the Last House on the Left: The Legacy of Horror's Most Controversial Classic (2021). In 2018 he directed and produced the documentary feature Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa, which won the Best Film Award at the annual Derby Film Festival. |
