Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation by Baron, Cynthia, Carson, Diane, Bernard, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food -- Representations in film -- Foodways as an ideological approach -- Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films -- Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community -- Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction -- When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films -- Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis -- Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame -- The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways -- Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.…”
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Appetites and anxieties : food, film, and the politics of representation by Baron, Cynthia, Carson, Diane, Bernard, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the cultural and material politics of food -- Representations in film -- Foodways as an ideological approach -- Food and film industries: a filter for the food we see in films -- Foodways syntax: utopian films' use of food to create community -- Foodways structured to convey disorder and dysfunction -- When humans are the food product: an ideological look at cannibal films -- Food as threat and promise: genre and auteur analysis -- Foodways in documentary films: consumer society in a wider frame -- The politics surrounding documentaries' depiction of foodways -- Food as a window into personal and cultural politics.…”


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Italian horror cinema

Table of Contents: “…List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Stefano Baschiera and Russ Hunter -- Preferisco l'inferno: early Italian horror cinema / Russ Hunter -- Domestic films made for export: modes of production of the 1960s Italian horror film / Francesco Di Chiara -- The 1980s Italian horror cinema of imitation: the good, the ugly and the sequel / Stefano Baschiera -- Knowing the unknown beyond: "Italianate" and "Italian" horror cinema in the twenty-first century / Johnny Walker -- Bavaesque: the making of Mario Bava as Italian horror auteur / Peter Hutchings -- The Argento Syndrome: aesthetics of horror / Marcia Landy -- Scrap metal, stains, clogged drains: Argento's refuse and its refusals / Karl Schoonover -- The giallo/slasher landscape: Ecologia del delitto, Friday the 13th and subtractive spectatorship / Adam Lowenstein -- Kings of terror, geniuses of crime: giallo cinema and fumetti neri / Leon Hunt -- Political memory in the Italian hinterland: locating the "rural giallo" / Austin Fisher -- The horror of progressive rock: Goblin and horror soundtracks / Craig Hatch -- "The only monsters here are the filmmakers:" animal cruelty and death in Italian cannibal films / Mark Bernard -- Italian horror cinema and Italian film journals of the 1970s / Paolo Noto -- Index.…”
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Grindhouse : cultural exchange on 42nd Street, and beyond

Table of Contents: “…. -- Phyll Smith -- Chapter 3 -- Temporary Fleapits and Scabs' Alley:The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia -- Dean Brandum -- Chapter 4 -- Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72 -- Peter Stanfield -- Chapter 5 -- "The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century": The Carsploitation Film -- Robert J Read -- Chapter 6 -- Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures' SoCal Drive-in Movies -- Richard Nowell -- Chapter 7 -- From "Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family" to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema -- Kevin Heffernan -- Chapter 8 -- 'Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac': Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story -- Neil Jackson -- Chapter 9 -- From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again): Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia -- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Chapter 10 -- Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western -- Austin Fisher -- Chapter 11 -- Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the "Indiansploitation" Cycle -- David Church -- Chapter 12 -- Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper -- Clarissa Smith -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors.…”


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Bath Salts and Other Synthetic Drugs Think About It

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