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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perkins, Claire (Claire Elizabeth)

Verevis, Constantine.

Series:

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438449975

1438449976