Grindhouse

Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

AvAustin Fisher,Johnny Walker

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Global Exploitation Cinemas

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Beskrivning

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 Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:566 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global Exploitation Cinemas
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781628927474

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Media och underhållning inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University, 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. His writing on horror and exploitation cinema can be read in journals such as Horror Studies, the Journal of British Cinema and Television, and in his forthcoming books Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015) and Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Recensioner i media

The Grindhouse is a fascinating phenomenon but it is too often seen as a wild and eclectic one, something that is praised for being chaotic and anarchic. The current collection goes beyond this celebratory rhetoric to examine the multiple forms and histories that converge in the Grindhouse. It unpicks and unpacks the phenomenon in ways that demonstrate its richness and variety, but also make sense of that richness and variety. Most significantly, it does so without destroying the pleasures of the Grindhouse. On the contrary it manages to question the experience while preserving its sense of fascination. And that is a very rare thing.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: 42nd Street, and BeyondAustin Fisher and Johnny WalkerChapter 1Grinding out the Grindhouse: Exploitation, Myth and MemoryGlenn WardChapter 2Where Did We Come In?: The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses.Phyll SmithChapter 3Temporary Fleapits and Scabs’ Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, AustraliaDean BrandumChapter 4Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72Peter StanfieldChapter 5“The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century”: The Carsploitation FilmRobert J ReadChapter 6Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures’ SoCal Drive-in MoviesRichard NowellChapter 7From “Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family” to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic CinemaKevin HeffernanChapter 8‘Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac’: Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real StoryNeil JacksonChapter 9From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond AustraliaAlexandra Heller-NicholasChapter 10Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation WesternAustin FisherChapter 11Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the “Indiansploitation” CycleDavid ChurchChapter 12Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the ZipperClarissa SmithSelect BibliographyContributors