Sconce Sleaze Artists

Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9019-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Collection of essays on the impact that non-mainstream and middlebrow film genres have had on popular culture--including sexploitation, horror, cult, XXX, and indie films.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sconce, Jeffrey

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schaefer, Eric

Modleski, Tania

Benshoff, Harry M.

Kleinhans, Chuck

Gunckel, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part 1: Sleazy Histories

Pandering to the “Goon Trade”: Framing the Sexploitation Audience through Advertising / Eric Schaefer 19

Women’s Cinema as Counterphobic Cinema: Doris Wishman as the Last Auteur / Tania Modleski 47

Representing (Repressed) Homosexuality in the Pre-Stonewall Hollywood Homo-Military Film / Harry M. Benshoff 71

Pornography and Documentary: Narrating the Alibi / Chuck Kleinhans 96

El signo de la muerte and the Birth of a Genre: Origins and Anatomy of the Aztec Horror Film 121

Art House or House of Exorcism? The Changing Distribution and Reception Contexts of Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil / Kevin Heffernan 144

Part 2: Sleazy Afterlives

Troubling Synthesis: The Horrific Sights and Incompatible Sounds of Video Nasties / Kay Dickinson 167

The Sleazy Pedigree of Todd Haynes / Joan Hawkins 189

Para-Paracinema: The Friday the 13th Film Series as Other to Trash and Legitimate Film Cultures / Matt Hills 219

Boredom, Spasmo, and the Italian System / Chris Fujiwara 240

Pure Quidditas or Geek Chic? Cultism as Discernment / Greg Taylor 259

Movies: A Century of Failure / Jeffrey Sconce 273

Selected Bibliography 311

Contributors 321

Index 325

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Sconce is Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures Program at Northwestern University. He is the author of Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, also published by Duke University Press.