| Subject |
Sensationalism in motion pictures.
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| Descript |
xxi, 340 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Early transgressions. Erotica in the service of social hygiene : sexual enlightenment melodramas in Austro-Hungarian and Weimer German cinema / Mel Gordon -- Kicking against the pricks : the perverseness of Erich Von Stroheim / William B. Parrill -- Two Helens and a host of tricks : Tod Browning's The thirteenth chair / Gary Don Rhodes -- The prince of exploitation : Dwain Esper / Robert G. Weiner -- pt. II. Sexploitation. Fondling your eyeballs : watching Doris Wishman / Rebekah McKendry -- Exploring cinema's sordid side through the films of Sonney and Friedman / Cynthia J. Miller -- In celebration of going too far : waterpower / Jack Sargeant -- The last film, the last book : Pasolini and Sade / Stephen Barber -- |
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pt. III. Exhibition. Horror at the crossroads : class, gender, and taste at the Rialto / Mark Jancovich and Tim Snelson -- Japanese Grindhouse : the Tobita cinema in Osaka / Johannes Schonherr -- Grindhouse and beyond / Jack Stevenson -- Art and grind in Seattle / Dennis Nyback -- pt. IV. Transgressive stars. The humanist transgressions of Lon Chaney / Rene Searfos -- The perfect threat : Arch Hall Jr., The sadist, and the ideal teenager / John Cline and Robert G. Weiner -- The history of a sexual revolutionary : Jamie Gillis / Michelle Clifford -- Cult-ural learnings from Borat : a model for the new standardized cult film / Anna Siomopoulos -- pt. V. Reality/documentary transgressions. The transgressive toke : art and misdemeanor in deadhead imagery / Emily D. Edwards -- The real "faces of death" : art shock in Des morts / Mark Goodall -- The small world of the snuff fetish custom video / David Kerekes -- There is nothing more objectionable than objectivity : the films of Peter Watkins / Nick Muntean -- It's only a movie? Reality as transgression in exploitation cinema / David Ray Carter. |
| Alt author |
Cline, John, 1981-
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Weiner, Robert G., 1966-
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| ISBN |
9780810876545 (hbk.) |
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