Laughing Screaming
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780231084659
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Film / General; Comedy films; History and criticism; Horror films; Sensationalism in motion pictu; Sensationalism in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures
First sentence: This is a book about movies that never won prestigious awards, movies that embraced the lowest common denominator as an aesthetic principle, movies that critics constantly griped about having to sit through.