David C Wall

Exploring Film through Bad Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of 'bad' cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts. It will appeal to researchers and scholars in Film Studies as well as cognate disciplines such as Screen Studies, Visual Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781032655246
• ISBN-10: 1032655240
• Artikelnr.: 74777473

Autorenporträt

David C. Wall is Professor of Film and Visual Studies at Utah State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Creatures of the Screen
2. Early Film Form, Narrative, and the Cinema of Attractions
3. Cult, Pleasure, and Nostalgia: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and the
Triumph of Irony
4. "Paging Dr. Freud!" Theorizing John Boorman's Zardoz
5. The World's Worst Director? Ed Wood and Auteur Theory
6. Nudie Cuties and Radical Roughies: Doris Wishman's World of Exploitation
7. Reel Nasty: The Night Porter, The Gestapo's Last Orgy, and
Sadiconazista Cinema of the 1970s
8. She Found It at the Movies: Pauline Kael and the Mystery of the
Disappearing Film Critic
9. When the Blockbuster Goes Bad: Cleopatra's Epic Excess and the Italian
Peplum
10. The Worst Masterpiece Ever Made: Heaven's Gate and The New Hollywood
11. Where Did It All Go Right?
Index