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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Continuing film lovers' ongoing conversation about the low! the bad! and the sleazy face of cinema! this book examines the ineffable quality of "sleaze" in relation to a range of issues! including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting terrain of reception and taste. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part 1: Sleazy Histories Pandering to the “Goon Trade”: Framing the Sexploitation Audience through Advertising / Eric Schaefer 19 Women’s Cinema as Counterphobic Cinema: Doris Wishman as the Last Auteur / Tania Modleski 47 Representing (Repressed) Homosexuality in the Pre-Stonewall Hollywood Homo-Military Film / Harry M. Benshoff 71 Pornography and Documentary: Narrating the Alibi / Chuck Kleinhans 96 El signo de la muerte and the Birth of a Genre: Origins and Anatomy of the Aztec Horror Film 121 Art House or House of Exorcism? The Changing Distribution and Reception Contexts of Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil / Kevin Heffernan 144 Part 2: Sleazy Afterlives Troubling Synthesis: The Horrific Sights and Incompatible Sounds of Video Nasties / Kay Dickinson 167 The Sleazy Pedigree of Todd Haynes / Joan Hawkins 189 Para-Paracinema: The Friday the 13th Film Series as Other to Trash and Legitimate Film Cultures / Matt Hills 219 Boredom, Spasmo, and the Italian System / Chris Fujiwara 240 Pure Quidditas or Geek Chic? Cultism as Discernment / Greg Taylor 259 Movies: A Century of Failure / Jeffrey Sconce 273 Selected Bibliography 311 Contributors 321 Index 325...
