After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image

Julia Vassilieva teaches Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is an author of Re-thinking the Experience of Immigration: From Loss to Gain (2010). She has published articles in a variety of journals, including Film-Philosophy, Senses of Cinema, Rouge, Cinema Studies, The New International Journal of Humanities and contributed as an editor to Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research. Constantine Verevis is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Film Remakes (2006) and co-editor of Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (2010). He is presently co-editing two further volumes: Film Trilogies (with Claire Perkins) and Remake-Remodel (with Kathleen Loock).

• Introduction: After Taste: Cultural Value and the Moving Image Part I. Critical Methods 1. ‘An idleness bordering on the wacky’: Paul Cox and the contradictions of an Australian art cinema 2. Hollywood: Bad cinema’s bad ‘other’ 3. Cultural value and viscerality in Sukiyaki Western Django: Towards a phenomenology of bad film 4. S. Eisenstein’s Que Viva Mexico! through time – historicising value judgement Part II. Taste and Value 5. Transitional tastes: Teen girls and genre in the critical reception of Twilight 6. ‘Flesh dissolved in an acid of light’: the B-movie as second sight 7. B for Bruckheimer: The authorial value of ‘Jerry Bruckheimer Television’ 8. Blowing Chunks: Fear Factor, reality television and abjection as a disciplinary practice Part III. Feeling and Affect 9. Labours of Love: Home movies, paracinema, and the modern work of cinema spectatorship 10. Dead time: Cinema, Heidegger, and boredom Part IV. Teaching Bad Objects Forum 11. Teaching Bad Objects: Introduction 12. The State of the Discipline: Film Studies as bad object 13. Beyond good/should/bad: Teaching Australian Indigenous film and television 14. Teaching Australian television studies