Brottman offers up a study of movies so offensive, some are
practically unwatchable. From the ever-popular "Faces of Death"
movies to purported snuff films, from classic B-movies such as "The
Tingler, " to more popular but no less controversial films such as
The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre, " Brottman takes a wide-eyed look at
movies most folks watch only through parted fingers.
While most critics have been quick to dismiss such films as mere
shock-fests (if they even bother to talk about them at all),
Brottman argues that these movies tell us quite a bit about who we
are as a society, what makes us anxious, and what taboos we truly
believe cannot be crossed. Part anthropology, part psychoanalysis,
"Offensive Films" vivisects these movies in order to figure out
just what about them is so offensive, obscene, or bizarre. In the
end, Brottman proves that these films, shunned from the cinematic
canon, work on us in sophisticated ways we often choose to remain
unaware of.
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