Sleaze artists
Subtitle: cinema at the margins of taste, style, and politics
By: Jeffrey Sconce, ed.
Contributors: Sconce, Jeffrey, 1962-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822339533; 9780822339649
Subjects: Sensationalism in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pandering to the "goon trade" / Eric Schaefer; title: Women's cinema as counterphobic cinema / Tania Modleski; title: Representing (cepressed) homosexuality in the pre-stonewall hollywood homo-military film / Harry M. Benshoff; title: Pornography and documentary / Chuck Kleinhans; title: El signo de la muerte and the birth of a genre / Colin Gunckel; title: Art house or house of exorcism? The changing distribution and reception contexts of Mario Bava's Lisa and the devil / Kevin Heffernan; title: Troubling synthesis / Kay Dickinson; title: The sleazy pedigree of Todd Haynes / Joan Hawkins; title: Para-paracinema / Matt Hills; title: Boredom, spasmo, and the Italian system / Chris Fujiwara; title: Pure quidditas or geek chic? Cultism as discernment / Greg Taylor; title: Movies, a century of failure / Jeffrey Sconce