Barefoot Guy - Trash Cinema The Lure Of The Low - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B - movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today and from the New York underground to the genre variations of Turkey's Yesilcam studios (and their You Tube afterlife). Critically examining the reasons for studying denigrating or celebrating the detritus of film history it also considers the place of a trash aesthetic within and beyond 1960s American avant - garde and looks at the cult of trash in the fanzines of the 1980s. It draws on debates about cult paracinema and camp arguing that trash cinema exists in relation to these but brings with it a particular history that includes the ordinary as well as the strange. Trash Cinema places these debates and the strand of self - proclaimed low culture that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century within a historical and international perspective. It focuses on American cinema history but addresses Eurotrash reception as well as the related field of garbology examining trash cinema as a distinct but fluid category.
Title: Trash Cinema The Lure Of The Low
Author(s): Barefoot Guy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231180375
Pages: 144 Pages, 16 B&W Illustrations
Publication Date: 11/21/2017
Series: Short Cuts
Category: Cultural Studies