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Underground U.S.A. : filmmaking beyond the Hollywood canon /

Whether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles, Jack Smith, or Harmony Korine, underground cinema has achieved an important position wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mendik, Xavier (Editor ), Schneider, Steven Jay (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.
Colección:AlterImage.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1. 'No Worse Than You Were Before': Theory, Economy and Power in Abel Ferrara's 'The Addiction'; 2. Radley Metzger's 'Elegant Arousal': Taste, Aesthetic Distinction and Sexploitation; 3. Curtis Harrington and the Underground Roots of the Modern Horror Film; 4. 'Special Effects' in the Cutting Room; 5. Real(ist) Horror: From Execution Videos to Snuff Films; 6. A Report on Bruce Conner's 'Report'; 7. Voyeurism, Sadism and Transgression: Screen Notes and Observations on Warhol's 'Blow Job' and 'I, a Man'
  • 8. 'You Bled My Mother, You Bled My Father, But You Won't Bleed Me': The Underground Trio of Melvin Van Peebles9. Doris Wishman Meets the Avant-Garde; 10. Full Throttle on the Highway to Hell: Mavericks, Machismo and Mayhem in the American Biker Movie; 11. The Ideal Cinema of Harry Smith; 12. What is the Neo-Underground and What Isn't: A First Consideration of Harmony Korine; 13. Underground America 1999; 14. Phantom Menace: Killer Fans, Consumer Activism and Digital Filmmakers; 15. Film Co-Ops: Old Soldiers from the Sixties Still Standing in Battle Against Hollywood Commercialism.
  • 16. 'Gouts of Blood': The Colourful Underground Universe of Herschell Gordon Lewis17. Theory of Xenomorphosis; 18. Visions of New York: Films from the 1960s Underground; 19. A Tasteless Art: Waters, Kaufman and the Pursuit of 'Pure' Gross-Out; Notes; Index.