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Underground U.S.A.: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon
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Description for Underground U.S.A.: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon
Paperback. Editor(s): Mendik, Xavier; Schneider, Steven Jay. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 183 x 16. Weight in Grams: 512. Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon. 224 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Mendik, Xavier; Schneider, Steven Jay. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APFR. Dimension: 229 x 183 x 16. Weight: 512.
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 within American film culture. Often defined as "cult" and "exploitation" or "alternative" and "independent," the American underground retains separate strategies of production and exhibition from the cinematic mainstream, while its sexual and cinematic representations differ from the traditionally conservative structures of the Hollywood system. Underground U.S.A. offers a fascinating overview of this area of maverick moviemaking by ... Read more
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 within American film culture. Often defined as "cult" and "exploitation" or "alternative" and "independent," the American underground retains separate strategies of production and exhibition from the cinematic mainstream, while its sexual and cinematic representations differ from the traditionally conservative structures of the Hollywood system. Underground U.S.A. offers a fascinating overview of this area of maverick moviemaking by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
511 g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231162791
SKU
V9780231162791
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About Mendik
Xavier Mendik is the director of the Cult Film Archive at University College Northampton, and he is the general editor of the AlterImage series. Steven Jay Schneider is author of The Cinema of Wes Craven.
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