"During the 1960s, the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience couldn't get enough of the bikini-clad beauties dancing on the beach or being wooed by Elvis Presley, and later the mini-skirted, go-go boot wearing, independent-minded gals of spy spoofs, hot rod movies and bi…
"During the 1960s, the predominantly teenage drive-in movie audience couldn't get enough of the bikini-clad beauties dancing on the beach or being wooed by Elvis Presley, and later the mini-skirted, go-go boot wearing, independent-minded gals of spy spoofs, hot rod movies and bi…
Blair Davis analyzes how B-films were produced, distributed and exhibited in the 1950s and demonstrates the possibilities that existed for low-budget filmmaking at a time when many in Hollywood had abandoned the Bs.
The choicest noir, neo-noir, science fiction, horror, westerns, midnight movies, and more--from critics like David Ansen, Jami Bernard, Roger Ebert, Carrie Rickey, Richard Schickel, and Kenneth Turan.
"Once the B movie was the Hollywood stepchild, the underbelly of the double feature. Today it is a more inclusive category, embracing films that fall outside the mainstream by dint of their budgets, their visions, their grit, and occasionally - sometimes essentially - their lack…
'Trash films' purveyed the forbidden thrills of explicit sexual behaviour, drug use and vice that the mainstream Hollywood film industry could not show. Setting these exploitation films in their historical context, and organising them according to the social problems they addres…
Following the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and aesthetics became a significant cinematic expression of social and cultural anxieties. Influencing new trends in European, Asian and African filmmaking, these films carried on t…
Following the Second World War, low-budget B-movies that explored and exploited Gothic narratives and aesthetics became a significant cinematic expression of social and cultural anxieties. Influencing new trends in European, Asian and African filmmaking, these films carried on t…
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 tr…
While there are numerous books on art and exploitation cinema, very few attempt to examine both. Covering the first 100 years of cinematic transgressions, From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse is a collection of numerous essays representing key contributions to overlooked, forgott…
