Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics

Published by Duke University Press 2007

Sleaze Artists

Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics

Edited by: Jeffrey Sconce
With contributions by: Eric Schaefer , Tania Modleski , Harry M. Benshoff , Chuck Kleinhans and Colin Gunckel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822390190

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About this book

Collection of essays on the impact that non-mainstream and middlebrow film genres have had on popular culture--including sexploitation, horror, cult, XXX, and indie films.

Author / Editor information

Jeffrey Sconce is Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures Program at Northwestern University. He is the author of Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“There is a certain thrill inherent in a scholarly anthology that wholly embraces those films usually deemed disreputable, disgusting, cheap, and perhaps even anti-intellectual. . . . A satisfyingly subversive addition to film studies and cultural studies. . . .” - Adam Dodd, M/C Reviews

“One of the most intriguing essayists in the book is Kay Dickinson, on how music figured in Britain’s banning of five Italian films from videotape distribution.” - Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education

“Personally, I found the book’s first section, ‘Sleazy Historyies,’ to be the most compelling . . . . The book’s second section, ‘Sleazy Afterlives,’ contains some top-notch retrospective analyses of marginal films.” - Mikita Brottman, PopMatters

“Sleaze Artists constitutes an honest attempt to trip the cultural rift. There's a becoming undercurrent of humility to most of the essays, which suggests that even the brightest minds in cultural studies are still refining their approach to what is generally a back-breaking endeavor—elevating the low into the rarefied (and suffocating) air of academic contemplation.” - Adam Nayman, Cineaste

“Sleaze Artists represents an articulate, accessible, and thoughtful adventure into the world of cinematic bad taste and low culture. . . . Sleaze Artists provides us with clear, thoughtful discussion about some great sleazy movies.” - Parley Ann Boswell, Journal of American Cultures

“Sleaze Artists is an excellent collection, which covers a wide range of topics important to the understanding of sleaze cinema, and is a great addition to both cinema and cultural studies.” - Lyndall Clipstone, Media International Australia

“Aztec blood sacrifices! Knife-wielding psychos!! Libido-crazed military men!!! Martin Heidegger!!!! With verve and vigor, Sleaze Artists offers this . . . and more! The book boldly rips the lid off the wacky world of sleaze movies with subversive delight and intellectual insight!! Don’t go into this volume alone!—unless you are ready for sharp scholarship, rigorous historiography, careful argument, and a deep commitment to an understanding of cinema in all its richness across a variety of taste cultures!!”—Dana Polan, Cinema Studies, New York University

“Sleaze Artists constitutes an honest attempt to trip the cultural rift. There's a becoming undercurrent of humility to most of the essays, which suggests that even the brightest minds in cultural studies are still refining their approach to what is generally a back-breaking endeavor—elevating the low into the rarefied (and suffocating) air of academic contemplation.”

-- Adam Nayman Cineaste

“Sleaze Artists is an excellent collection, which covers a wide range of topics important to the understanding of sleaze cinema, and is a great addition to both cinema and cultural studies.”

-- Lyndall Clipstone Media International Australia

“Sleaze Artists represents an articulate, accessible, and thoughtful adventure into the world of cinematic bad taste and low culture. . . . Sleaze Artists provides us with clear, thoughtful discussion about some great sleazy movies.”

-- Parley Ann Boswell Journal of American Culture

“One of the most intriguing essayists in the book is Kay Dickinson, on how music figured in Britain’s banning of five Italian films from videotape distribution.”

-- Nina C. Ayoub Chronicle of Higher Education

“Personally, I found the book’s first section, ‘Sleazy Historyies,’ to be the most compelling . . . . The book’s second section, ‘Sleazy Afterlives,’ contains some top-notch retrospective analyses of marginal films.”

-- Mikita Brottman PopMatters

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
part 1: Sleazy Histories
Pandering to the “Goon Trade”: Framing the Sexploitation Audience through Advertising Eric Schaefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Women’s Cinema as Counterphobic Cinema: Doris Wishman as the Last Auteur Tania Modleski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Representing (Repressed) Homosexuality in the Pre-Stonewall Hollywood Homo-Military Film Harry Benshoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Pornography and Documentary: Narrating the Alibi Chuck Kleinhans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
El signo de la muerte and the Birth of a Genre: Origins and Anatomy of the Aztec Horror Film Colin Gunckel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Art House or House of Exorcism? The Changing Distribution and Reception Contexts of Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil Kevin Heffernan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
part 2: Sleazy Afterlives
Troubling Synthesis: The Horrific Sights and Incompatible Sounds of Video Nasties Kay Dickinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
The Sleazy Pedigree of Todd Haynes Joan Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Para-Paracinema: The Friday the 13th Film Series as Other to Trash and Legitimate Film Cultures Matt Hills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Boredom, Spasmo, and the Italian System Chris Fujiwara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Pure Quidditas or Geek Chic? Cultism as Discernment Greg Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Movies: A Century of Failure Jeffrey Sconce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 352
Illustrations
- Other: 59 illustrations

eBook

Published: October 24, 2007
ISBN: 9780822390190