Shocking Cinema of the 70s by Julian Petley Hardcover Book

Description: Shocking Cinema of the 70s by Julian Petley, Xavier Mendik This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various difficult subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. It is not an uncritical celebration of the shocking and the subversive but an attempt to understand why this decade produced films which many found shocking, and what it was that made them shocking to certain audiences. To this end it includes not only films that shocked the conventionally minded, such as hard core pornography, but also those that outraged liberal opinion – for example, Death Wish and Dirty Harry.The book does not simply cast a critical light on a series of controversial films which have been variously maligned, misinterpreted or just plain ignored, but also assesses how their production values, narrative features and critical receptions can be linked to the wider historical and social forces that were dominant during this decade. Furthermore, it explores how these films resonate in our own historical moment – replete as it is with shocks of all kinds. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Julian Petley is emeritus and honorary professor of journalism at Brunel University London. He is the principal editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television. His books include Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain (2011), Censorship: A Beginners Guide (2009) and the co-authored Culture Wars: The Media and the British Left (2019).Xavier Mendik is Professor of Cult Cinema Studies at Birmingham City University, UK, from where he runs the Cine-Excess International Film Festival. He is editor of Shocking Cinema of the Seventies (2002), co-editor of Alternative Europe (2004) and Underground USA (2002). Table of Contents New Shocks to the System: An Introduction to the Second Edition of Shocking Cinema of the SeventiesXavier Mendik and Julian PetleySection One: International Visions of the Extreme1. Walerian Borowczyk: Seventies Sexploitation through SublimationAga Skrodzka2. A Womans Grudge: Figuring Female Resentment in Japanese 1970s Grindhouse CinemaLaura Treglia3. Rethinking Representation, Race and Rape in the 1970s Women in Prison MovieJames NewtonSection Two: From the Vigilante to the Violated4. Death Wish: A Vigilantes Journey, An Urban TragedyWilliam Gombash5. Rough Justice: Lone Cops, Vigilantes and Penal PopulismJulian Petley6. Small Screen Shockers: Rape-Revenge Narratives in the TV MovieJennifer WallisSection Three: State Sponsored Shocks7. Tax Shelter Terrors: Cinépix and the Hidden History of 1970s Canadian Horror CinemaXavier Mendik8. Shocking Canadian Cinema of the Seventies: An Interview with William FruetXavier Mendik9. You miserable, no good, dirty sons of bitches!: Queer(y)ing Canuxploitation revenge narratives in the films of John Dunning and André LinkRobin GriffithsSection Four: Family-sploitation and Threats to the Family10. Family Entertainment: Psychotic Slaughter in the 1970s Charles Manson MoviesBill OsgerbyConclusionBibliographyIndex Review Its alive … again! Shocking Cinema of the Seventies is back but not as we knew it. More than merely an updating of the previous edition, this volume is a wholly new collection that responds to the profound changes that have taken place in the status of 1970s cinema over the last two decades. An indispensable volume in its own right! -- Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia, UKMendik and Petleys new volume unearths little-suspected histories and sub-genre cycles hidden in plain sight and material from darker recesses of criminality and fantasy. Contributors challenge conceptions of cinema and how and why academics study it, disturbing both conservative and radical sensibilities as much as do the films themselves. -- Nigel Morris, University of Lincoln, USA.This exciting collection advances significant new research in 70s cult cinema, especially fascinating work in international cinema including Japan. With an introduction rightly interrogating what is meant by shocking and asking us to rethink our commonly held assumptions, this is compulsory reading for all film scholars and those interested in cult cinema and television. -- Jason Lee, De Monfort University, UKA collection as electrifying and as essential as the wild, diverse range of films from the 1970s it explores, authored by some of the most vital and exciting voices in cult film studies today. -- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author of Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2021)Its hardly shocking that two of the UKs most distinguished film journalists have produced this impressive new edition of a film book which has long been an essential component of any cinéastes shelves. * Crime Time *Shocking Cinema of the 70s offers a range of opinion and insight on films which caused public outcry, upset the critics, or troubled governments. Whereas some of these films, looked at almost fifty years later, might make that seem like an overreaction, others might still make for uncomfortable viewing today. This collection enables us to understand what a Shocking film is, and what there still is to learn from them. Highly recommended. * Cinema Retro * Promotional This collection offers a range of fresh perspectives on a wide body of work from a cinematic decade still in need of critical re-evaluation, reclamation and revision. Review Quote This exciting collection advances significant new research in 70s cult cinema, especially fascinating work in international cinema including Japan. With an introduction rightly interrogating what is meant by shocking and asking us to rethink our commonly held assumptions, this is compulsory reading for all film scholars and those interested in cult cinema and television. Promotional "Headline" This collection offers a range of fresh perspectives on a wide body of work from a cinematic decade still in need of critical re-evaluation, reclamation and revision. Feature Offers a fresh perspective on 1970s cinema Details ISBN135013631X ISBN-10 135013631X ISBN-13 9781350136311 Format Hardcover Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-11-18 UK Release Date 2021-11-18 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-11-18 Author Xavier Mendik Pages 336 Illustrations 26 bw images Edited by Xavier Mendik Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DEWEY 791.4309 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-01-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137315040;

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