Shocking Cinema of the 70s

Julian Petley is emeritus and honorary professor of journalism at Brunel University London. He is the principal editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television. His books include Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain (2011), Censorship: A Beginner’s Guide (2009) and the co-authored Culture Wars: The Media and the British Left (2019).Xavier Mendik is Professor of Cult Cinema Studies at Birmingham City University, UK, from where he runs the Cine-Excess International Film Festival. He is editor of Shocking Cinema of the Seventies (2002), co-editor of Alternative Europe (2004) and Underground USA (2002).

• New Shocks to the System: An Introduction to the Second Edition of Shocking Cinema of the Seventies Xavier Mendik and Julian Petley Section One: International Visions of the Extreme 1. Walerian Borowczyk: Seventies Sexploitation through Sublimation Aga Skrodzka2. A Woman’s Grudge: Figuring Female Resentment in Japanese 1970s Grindhouse CinemaLaura Treglia3. Rethinking Representation, Race and Rape in the 1970s Women in Prison MovieJames NewtonSection Two: From the Vigilante to the Violated 4. Death Wish: A Vigilante’s Journey, An Urban Tragedy William Gombash 5. Rough Justice: Lone Cops, Vigilantes and Penal PopulismJulian Petley6. Small Screen Shockers: Rape-Revenge Narratives in the TV Movie Jennifer Wallis Section Three: State Sponsored Shocks 7. Tax Shelter Terrors: Cinépix and the Hidden History of 1970s Canadian Horror CinemaXavier Mendik 8. Shocking Canadian Cinema of the Seventies: An Interview with William FruetXavier Mendik 9. ‘You miserable, no good, dirty sons of bitches!’: Queer(y)ing ‘Canuxploitation’ revenge narratives in the films of John Dunning and André LinkRobin GriffithsSection Four: Family-sploitation and Threats to the Family 10. Family Entertainment: Psychotic Slaughter in the 1970s Charles Manson MoviesBill Osgerby ConclusionBibliographyIndex

It’s alive … again! Shocking Cinema of the Seventies is back but not as we knew it. More than merely an updating of the previous edition, this volume is a wholly new collection that responds to the profound changes that have taken place in the status of 1970s cinema over the last two decades. An indispensable volume in its own right!