Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-294) and index.
About the Author
Joan Hawkins is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University.
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Paracinema culture and psychotronic style. Sleaze-mania, Euro-trash, and high art : the place of European art films in American low culture ; Medium cool : video culture, video aesthetics -- pt. 2. At the crossroads. Art houses and horrorshows, or, Pauline Kael meets Georges Franju ; The scalpel's edge : Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage ; The anxiety of influence : Georges Franju and the medical horrorshows of Jess Franco -- pt. 3. When horror meets the avant-garde. Exploitation meets direct cinema : Yoko Ono's Rape and the trash cinema of Michael and Roberta Findlay ; From horror to avant-garde : Tod Browning's Freaks ; Monsters in the art world : Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey -- Conclusion, Mainstreaming trash aesthetics.