Grindhouse
Subtitle: cultural exchange on 42nd Street, and beyond
By: edited by Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker
Series: Global exploitation cinemas -- vol. 1
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781628927474; 9781628927498
Subjects: Social life and customs; Exploitation films; Motion picture theaters; Sensationalism in motion pictures; History and criticism; History
Description: "Examines, with historically informed nuance, the myriad routes of cultural influence that converged in the American 'grindhouse' phenomenon and its aftermath"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. 42nd Street, and Beyond / Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker; title: Grinding out the Grindhouse : Exploitation, Myth and Memory / Glenn Ward; title: Where Did We Come In? : The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses / Phyll Smith; title: Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley :The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia / Dean Brandum; title: Run, Angel, Run : Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 / Peter Stanfield; title: "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century" : The Carsploitation Film / Robert J Read; title: Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed) : Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies / Richard Nowell; title: From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures : I Jomfruens tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema / Kevin Heffernan; title: 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac' : Porn Stardom in Exhausted : John C Holmes The Real Story / Neil Jackson; title: From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again) : Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas; title: Go West, Brother : the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western / Austin Fisher; title: Red Power, White Movies : Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle / David Church; title: Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses : The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper / Clarissa Smith.