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Grindhouse : cultural exchange on 42nd Street, and beyond / edited by Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.S284 G75 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global exploitation cinemas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exploitation films--History and criticism.
- Exploitation films.
- Sensationalism in motion pictures.
- Motion picture theaters--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Motion picture theaters.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Examines, with historically informed nuance, the myriad routes of cultural influence that converged in the American 'grindhouse' phenomenon and its aftermath"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: 42nd Street, and Beyond
- Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker
- Chapter 1
- Grinding out the Grindhouse: Exploitation, Myth and Memory
- Glenn Ward
- Chapter 2
- Where Did We Come In?: The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses.
- Phyll Smith
- Chapter 3
- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia
- Dean Brandum
- Chapter 4
- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72
- Peter Stanfield
- Chapter 5
- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film
- Robert J Read
- Chapter 6
- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies
- Richard Nowell
- Chapter 7
- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema
- Kevin Heffernan
- Chapter 8
- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story
- Neil Jackson
- Chapter 9
- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia
- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Chapter 10
- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western
- Austin Fisher
- Chapter 11
- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle
- David Church
- Chapter 12
- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper
- Clarissa Smith
- Select Bibliography
- Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Grindhouse.
- ISBN:
- 9781628927474
- 162892747X
- 9781628927498
- 1628927496
- OCLC:
- 912382739
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