B is for bad cinema : aesthetics, politics, and cultural value

Publication/Creation:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

B is for bad cinema : aesthetics, politics, and cultural value / edited by Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis

Series Titles:

The SUNY series, horizons of cinema
SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

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Additional Author/Creators:

Perkins, Claire (Claire Elizabeth), editor of compilation
Verevis, Constantine, editor of compilation

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Aesthetics

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

B for bad cinema / Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis -- pt. 1. Aesthetics -- Explosive apathy / Jeffrey Sconce -- B-grade subtitles / Tessa Dwyer -- Being in two places at the same time: the forgotten geography of rear-projection / Adrian Danks -- Redeeming cruising: tendentiously offensive, coherently incoherent, strangely pleasurable / R. Barton Palmer -- The villain we love: notes on the dramaturgy of screen evil / Murray Pomerance -- From bad to good and back to bad again? cult cinema and its unstable trajectory / Jamie Sexton -- pt. 2. Authorship -- Coffee in paradise: the horn blows at midnight / Tom Conley -- The risible: on Jean-Claude Brisseau / Adrian Martin -- The evil dead DVD commentaries, amateurishness and "bad film" discourse / Kate Egan -- Liking The magus / I.Q. Hunter -- BADaptation: is candy faithful? / Constantine Verevis.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xi, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990034121880302486

ISBN:

143844995X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438449951 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

841212209

Barcode:

050000083146