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Trash Cinema: The Lure of the Low
Guy Barefoot
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Paperback. Series: Short Cuts. Num Pages: 144 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the New York underground to the genre variations of Turkey's Yesilcam studios (and their YouTube afterlife). Critically examining the reasons for studying, denigrating, or celebrating the detritus of film history, it also considers the place of a trash aesthetic within and beyond 1960s American avant-garde and looks at the cult of trash in the fanzines of the 1980s. It draws on debates about cult, paracinema, and camp, arguing that trash cinema ... Read more
This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the New York underground to the genre variations of Turkey's Yesilcam studios (and their YouTube afterlife). Critically examining the reasons for studying, denigrating, or celebrating the detritus of film history, it also considers the place of a trash aesthetic within and beyond 1960s American avant-garde and looks at the cult of trash in the fanzines of the 1980s. It draws on debates about cult, paracinema, and camp, arguing that trash cinema ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Short Cuts
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231180375
SKU
V9780231180375
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About Guy Barefoot
Guy Barefoot is lecturer in film studies at the University of Leicester. He is the author of The Lost Jungle: Cliffhanger Action and Hollywood Serials of the 1930s and 1940s (2016).
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