From arthouse to the grindhouse
Subtitle: highbrow and lowbrow transgression in cinema's first century
By: edited by John Cline, Robert G. Weiner.
Contributors: Cline, John, 1981-; Weiner, Robert G., 1966-
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810876545; 9780810876552
Subjects: Sensationalism in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by John Cline and Robert G. Weiner; title: Early transgressions. Erotica in the service of social hygiene : "sexual enlightenment" melodramas in Austro-Hungarian and Weimer German cinema / Mel Gordon; title: Kicking against the pricks : the perverseness of Erich Von Stroheim / William B. Parrill; title: Two Helens and a host of tricks : Tod Browning's The thirteenth chair / Gary Don Rhodes; title: The prince of exploitation : Dwain Esper / Robert G. Weiner; title: Sexploitation. Fondling your eyeballs : watching Doris Wishman / Rebekah McKendry; title: "The sunshine boys of smut" : exploring cinema's sordid side through the films of Sonney and Friedman / Cynthia J. Miller; title: Waterpower : in celebration of going too far / Jack Sargeant; title: The last film, the last book : Pasolini and Sade / Stephen Barber; title: Exhibition. Horror at the crossroads : class, gender, and taste at the Rialto Cinema (Time Square) in the 1940s / Mark Jancovich and Tim Snelson; title: Japanese grindhouse : the Tobita cinema in Osaka / Johannes Schonherr; title: Grindhouse and beyond / Jack Stevenson; title: Art and grind in Seattle / Dennis Nyback; title: Transgressive stars. The humanist transgressions of Lon Chaney / Rene Searfos; title: The perfect threat : Arch Hall Jr., The sadist, and the ideal teenager / John Cline and Robert G.Weiner; title: Jamie Gillis : the history of a 20th century sexual revolutionary / Michelle Clifford; title: Cult-ural learnings from Borat : a model for the new standardized cult film / Anna Siomopoulos; title: Reality/Documentary. The transgressive toke : art and misdemeanor in deadhead imagery  / Emily D. Edwards; title: The real "faces of death" : art shock in des morts / Mark Goodall; title: The small world of the snuff fetish custom video / David Kerekes; title: There is nothing more objectionable than objectivity : the films of Peter Watkins / Nick Muntean; title: It's only a movie? : reality as transgression in exploitation cinema  / David Ray Carter.