The pervasive image of New York's 42nd Street as a hub of
sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where "grindhouse
cinema," the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an
image that has remained unchanged in the mind's eye of many
exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of
fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one
have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one
would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of
disparate "exploitation" films from all over the world that were
being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie
theatres. The contributors to Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd
Street, and Beyond consider "grindhouse cinema" from a variety of
cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the
etymology of "grindhouse" itself, add flesh to the bones of its
cadaverous history, or examine the term's contemporary relevance in
the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer
new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film
history, presenting snapshots of cultural moments that many of us
thought we already knew.
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