B is for bad cinema : aesthetics, politics, and cultural value
- Publication/Creation:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014
- Resource Type:
- 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:
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema
SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Perkins, Claire (Claire Elizabeth)
Verevis, Constantine
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- Subjects:
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: B Is for Bad Cinema""; ""Works Cited""; ""Part I: Aesthetics""; ""2. Explosive Apathy""; ""Explosions Are Awesome""; ""Dada to Boom-boom""; ""Blown Away""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""3. B-Grade Subtitles""; ""Intercultural Cult""; ""Double Badness""; ""Failing Derrida""; ""Open Endings""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""4. Being in Two Places at the Same Time: The Forgotten Geography of Rear-Projection""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""
""5. Redeeming Cruising: Tendentiously Offensive, Coherently Incoherent, Strangely Pleasurable""""In the Eyes of Beholders""; ""Cruising into Controversy""; ""Impenetrable Subterranean Basements""; ""Divided Artistic Judgments""; ""Scientia Sexualis""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""6. The Villain We Love: Notes on the Dramaturgy of Screen Evil""; ""Abysmal Pleasures""; ""Motion Pictures and Official Slaughter""; ""Anticipation and Delay""; ""A Characterological Type""; ""Abstraction from History""; ""Characterological Separation""; ""Pure Screen Villainy""; ""Transfiguration""
""Noble Degradation""""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""7. From Bad to Good and Back to Bad Again? Cult Cinema and Its Unstable Trajectory""; ""Bad Cults: The Negative Connotations of Religion""; ""Postwar Shifts""; ""Into the Present: The Return of Negative Cult?""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Part II: Authorship""; ""8. Coffee in Paradise: The Horn Blows at Midnight""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""9. The Risible: On Jean-Claude Brisseau""; ""Into the Whirlpool�""; ""Notes from the Underground""; ""Take It or Leave It""; ""Death to the Social Worker""; ""� And on with the Adventure""
""Works Cited""""10. The Evil Dead DVD Commentaries: Amateurishness and Bad Film Discourse""; ""The Text as “Bad� Object in DVD Commentaries""; ""Historical Context""; ""Audience Reactions""; ""Distinctive Personalities""; ""Amateur Aspirations""; ""Conclusion: Theories of Paracinema, Theories of the DVD""; ""Works Cited""; ""11. Liking The Magus""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""12. BADaptation: Is Candy Faithful?""; ""Candy, or Libertinism""; ""Good Grief! Candy a Movie""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" - Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936950242002486
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-4997-6
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