Author: Harry MedvedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time
Author: Harry MedvedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (and how They Got that Way)
Author: The Fifty Worst Films of All Time
Author: Harry MedvedPublisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446381192
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time, and how They Got that Way
Author: Harry MedveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture plays
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Fifty Worst Films of All Time
Author: Harry MedvedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Hollywood Hall of Shame
Author: Harry MedvedPublisher: TarcherPerigee
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
A Companion to the Horror Film
Author: Harry M. BenshoffPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118883497
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
This cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema's most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, covering everything from the history of horror movies to the latest critical approaches. Contributors include many of the finest academics working in the field, as well as exciting younger scholars Varied and comprehensive coverage, from the history of horror to broader issues of censorship, gender, and sexuality Covers both English-language and non-English horror film traditions Key topics include horror film aesthetics, theoretical approaches, distribution, art house cinema, ethnographic surrealism, and horror's relation to documentary film practice A thorough treatment of this dynamic film genre suited to scholars and enthusiasts alike
The Golden Turkey Awards
Author: Harry MedvedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
B Is for Bad Cinema
Author: Claire PerkinsPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438449976
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
B Is for Bad Cinema continues and extends, but does not limit itself to, the trends in film scholarship that have made cult and exploitation films and other "low" genres increasingly acceptable objects for critical analysis. Springing from discussions of taste and value in film, these original essays mark out the broad contours of "bad"—that is, aesthetically, morally, or commercially disreputable—cinema. While some of the essays share a kinship with recent discussions of B movies and cult films, they do not describe a single aesthetic category or represent a single methodology or critical agenda, but variously approach bad cinema in terms of aesthetics, politics, and cultural value. The volume covers a range of issues, from the aesthetic and industrial mechanics of low-budget production through the terrain of audience responses and cinematic affect, and on to the broader moral and ethical implications of the material. As a result, B Is for Bad Cinema takes an interest in a variety of film examples—overblown Hollywood blockbusters, faux pornographic works, and European art house films—to consider those that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability.
Trash Cinema
Author: Guy BarefootPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231542690
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
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 Yesilçam 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 exists in relation to these but brings with it a particular history that includes the ordinary as well as the strange. Trash Cinema places these debates, and the strand of self-proclaimed low culture that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, within a historical and international perspective. It focuses on American cinema history but addresses Eurotrash reception as well as the related field of garbology, examining trash cinema as a distinct but fluid category.