In the wake of the debates over high/low culture distinction
spilling into the effective dismantling of the boundary that once
separated them, the past decade has seen the explosion of 'bad
taste' production on screen. Starting with paracinema or 'badfilm'
- a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly
executed B-movies and has come to encompass disreputable and
unworthy films - this trend has been evident in various formats: on
television and in video-art, low-budget and straight to TV films,
amateur and home movies. The proliferation of trash on screen can
be seen as delivering the final blow to the vexed issue of taste.
More importantly, it prompts a reconsideration of some critical
issues surrounding production, circulation, understanding and
teaching of 'bad objects' in the media. This collection of essays,
written by international film and television scholars, provides
detailed critical analysis of the issues surrounding judgements of
cultural value and taste, feeling and affect, cultural morals and
politics, research methodologies and teaching strategies in the new
landscape of 'after taste' media. Addressing global and local
developments - from global Hollywood to Australian indigenous film
and television, through auteurs Sergei Eisenstein to Jerry
Bruckheimer, on to examples such as Twilight to Sukiyaki Western
Django - the essays in this book offer a range of critical tools
for understanding the recent shifts affecting cultural, aesthetic
and political value of the moving image. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media &
Cultural Studies.
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