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Aesthetic deviations : a critical view of American shot-on-video horror, 1984-1994 / Vincent A. Albarano.

Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 A43 2023
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Format:
Author/Creator:
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
196 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Other Title:
  • Critical view of American shot-on-video horror, 1984-1994
  • Critical view of American SOV horror, 1984-1994
Place of Publication:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Headpress, 2023.
Summary:
"In the first in-depth analysis of this maligned genre, Vincent Albarano demonstrates that amateur American SOV horror films are wholly compatible with serious c'riticism. Titles such as Video violence, Twisted issues, and Alien beasts are pivotal in independent film history and credit is given for their unique and singular contributions to genre cinema. ..."--Page [4] of cover.
Contents:
  • Ameteur cinema and the dawn of shot-on-video horror
  • Demon dolls and quadead zones: amateur cinephilia and the alternative function of realism
  • Todd Sheets and SOV medium specificity
  • Splatter video: mutating the slasher film
  • Excess and outrage: the transgressive video underground
  • Underground economies: SOV reception in the 2020s.
Notes:
  • "A Headpress book"--Title page verso.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781915316233
  • 1915316235
OCLC:
1374243669
Publisher Number:
99995264405

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