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Trash or Treasure - Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (Paperback)
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Trash or Treasure - Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (Paperback)
Series: Inside Popular Film
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Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British
circulation of the video nasties - a term that was originally
coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s but
which continues to have cultural resonance in Britain up to the
present day. The book is divided into three sections, which
represent the key periods of existence of the nasties category -
the formation of the term in the 1980s, the fan culture that formed
around the nasties subsequent to their banning under the video
recordings act and the DVD and theatrical re-release of some of the
titles from 1990 onwards. Through an exploration of a range of
relevant historical materials (from film reviews to fan websites,
to video advertising materials) the book examines how this unusual,
historically-specific genre category was formulated in a particular
context, and then used (for different reasons) by moral
campaigners, distributors, critics and fans. By examining the
discourses that inform the circulation of a group of banned films
(including the growth of DVD, the internet and the academic
rehabilitation of horror films), the book argues that censorship is
not just about rules and regulations, but also about the material,
cultural and commercial consequences of a censorhsip act of law. It
will be of great interest to lecturers and students of film,
popular culture and the media, as well as enthusiasts of horror
films and those interested in film censorship debates. -- .
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