B Is for Bad Cinema

Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.B Is for Bad Cinema continues and extends, but does not limit itself to, the trends in film scholarship that have made cult and exploitation films and other "low" genres increasingly acceptable objects for critical analysis. Springing from discussions of taste and value in film, these original essays mark out the broad contours of "bad"-that is, aesthetically, morally, or commercially disreputable-cinema. While some of the essays share a kinship with recent discussions of B movies and cult films, they do not describe a single aesthetic category or represent a single methodology or critical agenda, but variously approach bad cinema in terms of aesthetics, politics, and cultural value. The volume covers a range of issues, from the aesthetic and industrial mechanics of low-budget production through the terrain of audience responses and cinematic affect, and on to the broader moral and ethical implications of the material. As a result, B Is for Bad Cinema takes an interest in a variety of film examples-overblown Hollywood blockbusters, faux pornographic works, and European art house films-to consider those that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-03-01
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Antal sidor274
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438449951

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Claire Perkins is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of American Smart Cinema and the coeditor (with Verevis) of Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches. Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at Monash University. His previous books include Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1: Critical Positions (coauthored with Noel King and Deane Williams); Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (coedited with Carolyn Jess-Cooke), also published by SUNY Press; and Film Remakes.

IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: B Is for Bad CinemaClaire Perkins and Constantine VerevisPart I. Aesthetics 2. Explosive ApathyJeffery Sconce 3. B-Grade SubtitlesTessa Dwyer 4. Being in Two Places at the Same Time: The Forgotten Geography of Rear-ProjectionAdrian Danks5. Redeeming Cruising: Tendentiously Offensive, Coherently Incoherent, Strangely PleasurableR. Barton Palmer 6. The Villain We Love: Notes on the Dramaturgy of Screen EvilMurray Pomerance7. From Bad to Good and Back to Bad Again? Cult Cinema and Its Unstable TrajectoryJamie SextonPart II. Authorship 8. Coffee in Paradise: The Horn Blows at MidnightTom Conley 9. The Risible: On Jean-Claude BrisseauAdrian Martin10. The Evil Dead DVD Commentaries: Amateurishness and Bad Film DiscourseKate Egan11. Liking The MagusI. Q. Hunter12. BADaptation: Is Candy Faithful?Constantine VerevisContributorsIndex