Offensive films : toward an anthropology of cinéma vomitif
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Offensive films : toward an anthropology of cinéma vomitif
（Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 72）
Greenwood Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197), filmography (p. [185]-188) and index
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Description
The films discussed in this book have been labeled cinema vomitif because they induce a visceral response in their audience. They are an underground hybrid of slasher movies, exploitation films, and shock-u-mentaries. Taking a serious look at a taboo subject, Brottman argues that these scandalous films are of far more substance than has been previously assumed. Their consistent appeal to our repressed appetites, libidinal instincts, and fascination with flesh and death has much to tell us about the human condition. Films analyzed include the voyeuristic Freaks (1932), the traumatic psychodrama The Tingler (1959), the succes de scandale The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1976), the Italian shocker Cannibal Holocaust (1983), and two recent series of live death shock-u-mentaries, Death Scenes and Faces of Death (1989-1994). These movies, shunned from mainstream cinema because they are too offensive, obscene, marginal or bizarre, are considered here for the first time as an important part of the cinematic canon.
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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