num_pages: 289
description: Forget about the dry, academic studies of cinematic technique by crusty old celluloid bores. This book is about raw movie making: the extraordinary low budget maniacs who were willing to recreate any of the seven deadly sins and then invent a few more if committing them to film meant bums on seats.It's about the unsung heroes and heroines of the movie world; the salacious delights of the porn movie; banned movies like so many of Russ Meyer's masterpieces; whole genres doomed by cack-handed dubbing; movies sold on gimmicks alone; the 'five minutes of fame' stars like the incredible Rondo Hatton; drive-in schlock; the joyous outrage of juvenile delinquent films, the guru of gore: Herschell Gordon Lewis; AND THERE'S MORE!! This is a film book like no other film book you've ever encountered: a wonderfully entertaining and vivid account of the alternative movie world by one of its greatest and best-known fans.
language: English
title: The Incredibly Strange Film Book: An Alternative History of Cinema
titlecomplete: The Incredibly Strange Film Book: An Alternative History of Cinema
genres: Film, Media Tie In
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Simon & Schuster