Offensive films : toward an anthropology of cinéma vomitif /

Offensive films : toward an anthropology of cineĢma vomitif /

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Author / Creator:Brottman, Mikita, 1966-
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Description:viii, 211 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy no. 72
Subject:
Horror films -- History and criticism.
Sensationalism in motion pictures.
Horror films.
Sensationalism in motion pictures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2764699
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ISBN:031330033X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction "One of Us"
  • Carnivalizing the Taboo Faecal Phantoms
  • Oral and Anal Tensions in The Tingler "There Never Was a Party Like This!"
  • Blood Feast and the Primal Act of Cannibalism "Where Life Is Cheap..."
  • Snuff in South America, Slaughter on Cielo Drive Once Upon a Time in Texas
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre as an Inverted Fairy Tale Exophagy and Exchange
  • Giving and Taking in the Green Inferno Neo-Mondo: Recarnivalizing the Taboo
  • Afterword
  • Footnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index

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