Offensive films : toward an anthropology of cinéma vomitif /
Brottman, Mikita,1966-
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,
1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
"One of us"--carnivalizing the taboo -- Fecal phantoms--oral and anal tensions in The Tingler -- "There never was a party like this!" Blood feast and the primal act of cannibalism -- "Where life is cheap"--Snuff in South America, Slaughter on Cielo Drive -- "Once upon a time in Texas"--The Texas chain saw massacre as an inverted fairy tale -- Exophagy and exchange--giving and taking in the green inferno -- Neo-mondo--recarnivalizing the taboo.
Horror films
Sensationalism in motion pictures.