Grindhouse - Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

The pervasive image of New York''s 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where "grindhouse cinema," the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind''s eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of disparate "exploitation" films from all over the world that were being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie theatres.The contributors to consider "grindhouse cinema" from a variety of cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the etymology of "grindhouse" itself, add flesh to the bones of its cadaverous history, or examine the term''s contemporary relevance in the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film history, presenting snapshots of cultural moments that many of us thought we already knew.>

About the author

Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University, UK, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (2011), founding co-editor of the “Global Exploitation Cinemas” book series and editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2015). He serves on the Editorial Board of the Transnational Cinemas journal, is Co-Chair of the SCMS “Transnational Cinemas” Scholarly Interest Group, and founder of the “Spaghetti Cinema” festival.Johnny Walker is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015) and founding co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series (Bloomsbury).

Product details

• Authors: Austin Fisher, Prof Austin (Bournemouth University Fisher, Johnny Walker, Johnny Fisher Walker
• Assisted by: Austin Fisher (Editor), Prof Austin (Bournemouth University Fisher (Editor), Johnny Walker (Editor), Johnny (Northumbria University Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781628927498
• ISBN: 978-1-62892-749-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Global Exploitation Cinemas; Global Exploitation Cinemas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism