Offensive Films
"Brottman offers up a study of movies so offensive, some are practically unwatchable. From the ever-popular Faces of Death movies to purported snuff films, from classic b-movies such as The Tingler, to more popular, but no less controversial films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Brottman takes a wide-eyed look at movies most folks watch only through parted fingers. Part anthropology, part psychoanalysis, Offensive Films vivisects these movies in order to figure out just what about them is so offensive, obscene, or bizarre. In the end, Brottman proves that these films, shunned from the cinematic canon, work on us in sophisticated ways we often choose to remain unaware of"--Publisher description
205 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 1997 by Vanderbilt University Press · ISBN 9780826514912
Readers also shelved
Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, FloridaMikita BrottmanBe the first to rate this book
Editions
2 editions
English
- Offensive Films · Vanderbilt University Press · 2005 · ISBN 9780826514912 This page
- Offensive Films: Toward an Anthropology of Cinéma Vomitif · Greenwood Press · 1997 · ISBN 9780313300332
Keep track of what you read
Book Nook is a free reading tracker with a 3D bookshelf, a reading timer, challenges with friends and a Reading Wrapped at the end of the year. Add Offensive Films to your shelf in one tap.