Perkins / Verevis B Is for Bad Cinema

Aesthetics, Politics, and Cultural Value
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4997-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Considers films that lurk on the boundaries of acceptability in taste, style, and politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perkins, Claire

Verevis, Constantine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: B Is for Bad Cinema
Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis

Part I. Aesthetics

2. Explosive Apathy
Jeffery Sconce

3. B-Grade Subtitles
Tessa Dwyer

4. Being in Two Places at the Same Time: The Forgotten Geography of Rear-Projection
Adrian Danks

5. Redeeming Cruising: Tendentiously Offensive, Coherently Incoherent, Strangely Pleasurable
R. Barton Palmer

6. The Villain We Love: Notes on the Dramaturgy of Screen Evil
Murray Pomerance

7. From Bad to Good and Back to Bad Again? Cult Cinema and Its Unstable Trajectory
Jamie Sexton

Part II. Authorship

8. Coffee in Paradise: The Horn Blows at Midnight
Tom Conley

9. The Risible: On Jean-Claude Brisseau
Adrian Martin

10. The Evil Dead DVD Commentaries: Amateurishness and Bad Film Discourse
Kate Egan

11. Liking The Magus
I. Q. Hunter

12. BADaptation: Is Candy Faithful?
Constantine Verevis

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.