The essential guide to exploitation cinema including a look at war propaganda movies; an interview with porn star Traci Lords; and a profile of French surrealist filmmaker, Jean Painleve, all written by leading genre authors.
SHOCK - The Essential Guide to Exploitation Cinema
Edited by Stefan Jaworzyn
TITAN Books
128 pages : 275 x 210 mm : B&W illustrations
ISBN 1 85286 707 8
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The essential guide to exploitation cinema including a look at war propaganda movies; an interview with porn star Traci Lords; and a profile of French surrealist filmmaker, Jean Painleve, all written by leading genre authors. |
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REVIEW
This book is more like a gigantic magazine, full to bursting with a variety of articles cavorting round the central theme of Exploitation movies. These diverse articles range from interviews with directors like Massimo Pupillo director of such films as Terror Creatures from the Grave to Ramsey Campbell enlightening the reader to films with a spanking theme (like School-girl Fannies on Fire!). Kim Newman has two themes, firstly on how McCarthyism infiltrated all fifties films, especially SF ones, and again examining the cult film The Presidents Analyst. Necrophillia, American Porno Theatres, Traci Lords, Freaks, Propaganda and Blood On Satan's Claw are just some of the other areas of exploitation examined in depth.
This is a wonderful read illustrated by some amazingly tasteless stills, but is it worth £12.99? You bet it is.
G. Hurry
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