David Church

Grindhouse Nostalgia (eBook, PDF)

Memory, Home Video and Exploitation Film Fandom

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Produktbeschreibung

Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema', exploitation films have become both earnestly appreciated cult objects and home video items that are more accessible than ever. In this wide-ranging new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to the home video formats that keep these lurid movies fondly alive today. Arguing for the importance of cultural memory in contemporary fan practices, Church focuses on both the re-release of archival exploitation films on DVD and the recent cycle of 'retrosploitation' films like Grindhouse, Machete, Viva, The Devil's Rejects, and Black Dynamite. At a time when older ideas of subcultural belonging have become increasingly subject to nostalgia, Grindhouse Nostalgia presents an indispensable study of exploitation cinema's continuing allure, and is a bold contribution to our understanding of fandom, taste politics, film distribution, and home video.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748699117
• Artikelnr.: 72429299

Autorenporträt

David Church is a film and media scholar specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film circulation. He is the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (EUP, 2015), Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Mortal Kombat: Games of Death (University of Michigan Press, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Drive-in Theatre of the Mind: Nostalgic Populism and the Déclassé Video Object
Chapter 2: 42nd Street Forever? Constructing 'Grindhouse Cinema' from Exhibition to Genre to Transmedia Concept
Chapter 3: Paratexts, Pastiche, and the Direct-to-Video Aesthetic: Toward a Retrosploitation Mediascape
Chapter 4: Dressed to Regress? The Retributive Politics of the Retrosploitation Pastiche
Conclusion
Appendix: Selected Filmography and Videography of Retrosploitation Media
Selected Bibliography
Index