LEADER 03677nam 2200577 450 001 9910787587303321 005 20230607231508.0 010 $a0-231-85002-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000390918 035 $a(EBL)909592 035 $a(OCoLC)818857179 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001416226 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11774423 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001416226 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11353730 035 $a(PQKB)10806009 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909592 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909592 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10988784 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL684542 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000390918 100 $a20141128h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aUnderground U.S.A. $efilmmaking beyond the Hollywood canon /$fedited by Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2002. 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (257 pages) 225 1 $aAlterImage 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-16279-0 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1. 'No Worse Than You Were Before': Theory, Economy and Power in Abel Ferrara's 'The Addiction'; 2. Radley Metzger's 'Elegant Arousal': Taste, Aesthetic Distinction and Sexploitation; 3. Curtis Harrington and the Underground Roots of the Modern Horror Film ; 4. 'Special Effects' in the Cutting Room; 5. Real(ist) Horror: From Execution Videos to Snuff Films; 6. A Report on Bruce Conner's 'Report'; 7. Voyeurism, Sadism and Transgression: Screen Notes and Observations on Warhol's 'Blow Job' and 'I, a Man' 327 $a8. 'You Bled My Mother, You Bled My Father, But You Won't Bleed Me': The Underground Trio of Melvin Van Peebles9. Doris Wishman Meets the Avant-Garde; 10. Full Throttle on the Highway to Hell: Mavericks, Machismo and Mayhem in the American Biker Movie; 11. The Ideal Cinema of Harry Smith; 12. What is the Neo-Underground and What Isn't: A First Consideration of Harmony Korine; 13. Underground America 1999; 14. Phantom Menace: Killer Fans, Consumer Activism and Digital Filmmakers; 15. Film Co-Ops: Old Soldiers from the Sixties Still Standing in Battle Against Hollywood Commercialism 327 $a16. 'Gouts of Blood': The Colourful Underground Universe of Herschell Gordon Lewis17. Theory of Xenomorphosis; 18. Visions of New York: Films from the 1960s Underground; 19. A Tasteless Art: Waters, Kaufman and the Pursuit of 'Pure' Gross-Out; Notes; Index 330 $aWhether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles, Jack Smith, or Harmony Korine, underground cinema has achieved an important position within American film culture. Often defined as ""cult"" and ""exploitation"" or ""alternative"" and ""independent,"" the American underground retains separate strategies of production and exhibition from the cinematic mainstream, while its sexual and cinematic representations differ from the tradition 410 0$aAlterImage. 606 $aExperimental films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aExperimental films$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.43611 702 $aMendik$b Xavier 702 $aSchneider$b Steven Jay 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787587303321 996 $aUnderground U.S.A$93833706 997 $aUNINA