| Description |
xvii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
AlterImage
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I.A. : I-won't-suck-the-mainstream-art / Lloyd Kaufman -- Explorations underground : American film (ad)ventures beneath the Hollywood radar / Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider -- "No worse than you were before" : theory, economy and power in Abel Ferrara's "The addition" / Joan Hawkins -- Radley Metzger's "Elegant arousal" : taste, aesthetic distinction and sexploitation / Elena Gorfinkel -- Curtis Harrington and the underground roots of the modern horror film / Stephen R. Bissette -- "Special effects" in the cutting room / Tony Williams -- Real(ist) horror : from execution videos to snuff films / Joel Black -- Report on Bruce Coner's "Report" / Martin F. Norden -- Voyeurism, sadism and transgression : screen notes and observations on Warhol's "Blow job" and "I, a man" / Jack Sargeant -- "You bled my mother, you bled my father, but you won't bleed me" : the underground trio of Melvin Van Peebles / Garrett Chaffin-Quiray -- Doris Wishman meets the avant-garde / Michael J. Bowen -- Full throttle on the highway to hell : mavericks, machismo and mayhem in the American biker movie / Bill Osgerby -- Ideal cinema of Harry Smith / Jonathan L. Crane -- What is the neo-underground and what isn't : a first consideration of Harmony Korine / Benjamin Halligan -- Underground America 1999 / Annalee Newitz -- Phantom menace : killer fans, consumer activism and digital filmmakers / Sara Gwenllian Jones -- Film co-ops : old soldiers from the sixties still standing in battle against Hollywood commercialism / Jack Stevenson -- "Gouts of blood" : the colourful underground universe of Herschell Gordon Lewis / Xavier Mendik -- Theory of xenomorphosis / Nick Zedd -- Visions of New York : films from the 1960s underground / David Schwartz -- Tasteless art : Waters, Kaufman and the pursuit of "pure" gross-out / Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Scheider. |
| Subject |
Experimental films -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Mendik, Xavier.
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Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-
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| Added Title |
Underground USA |
| ISBN |
1903364493 |
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