"Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust." "Eve and the Handyman."
Examining film culture's ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and
sleazy faces of cinema, "Sleaze Artists" brings together film
scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by
disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore the ineffable
quality of "sleaze" in relation to a range of issues, including the
production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the
ever-shifting terrain of reception and taste.
Writing about horror, exploitation, and sexploitation films, the
contributors delve into topics ranging from the place of the "Aztec
horror film" in debates about Mexican national identity to a cycle
of 1960s films exploring homosexual desire in the military. One
contributor charts the distribution saga of Mario Bava's 1972 film
"Lisa and the Devil" through the highs and lows of art cinema,
fringe television, grindhouse circuits, and connoisseur DVD
markets. Another offers a new perspective on the work of Doris
Wishman, the New York housewife turned sexploitation director of
the 1960s who has become a cult figure in bad-cinema circles over
the past decade. Other contributors analyze the relation between
image and sound in sexploitation films and Italian horror movies,
the advertising strategies adopted by sexploitation producers
during the early 1960s, the relationship between art and trash in
Todd Haynes's oeuvre, and the ways that the "Friday the 13th"
series complicates the distinction between "trash" and "legitimate"
cinema. The volume closes with an essay on why cinephiles love to
hate the movies.
"Contributors." Harry M. Benshoff, Kay Dickinson, Chris
Fujiwara, Colin Gunckel, Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Matt Hills,
Chuck Kleinhans, Tania Modleski, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce,
Greg Taylor
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