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Too often dismissed as nothing more than 'trash cinema' exploitation films have become both earnestly appreciated cult objects and home video items that are more accessible than ever. In this wide-ranging new study, David Church explores how the history of drive-in theatres and urban grind houses has descended to the home video formats that keep these lurid movies fondly alive today. Arguing for the importance of cultural memory in contemporary fan practices, Church focuses on both the re-release of archival exploitation films on DVD and the recent cycle of 'retrosploitation' films like Grindhouse, Machete, Viva, The Devil's Rejects, and Black Dynamite. At a time when older ideas of subcultural belonging have become increasingly subject to nostalgia, Grindhouse Nostalgia presents an indispensable study of exploitation cinema's continuing allure, and is a bold contribution to our understanding of fandom, taste politics, film distribution, and home video. Key Features: The first in-depth critical examination of the recent and ongoing "retrosploitation" cycle *Expands a growing body of research on the importance of home video as containers of material history *Unites cultural memory studies and fan studies in productive ways for understanding a broad range of fan investments *Restores questions of affect and non-ironic reception to understandings of exploitation cinema's continuing appeal

Sociology of culture --- Film --- Exploitation films --- Motion pictures --- Sensationalism in motion pictures --- History and criticism.

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Unbecoming Cinema explores the notion of cinema as a living, active agent, capable of unsettling and reconfiguring a person's thoughts, senses, and ethics. Film, according to David H. Fleming, is a dynamic force, arming audiences with the ability to see and make a difference in the world. Drawing heavily on Deleuze's philosophical insights, as well as those of Guattari and Badiou, the book critically examines unsettling and taboo footage from suicide documentaries to art therapy films, from portrayals of mental health and autism to torture porn. In investigating the effect of film on the mind and body, Fleming's shrewd analysis unites transgressive cinema with metaphysical concepts of the body and mind.

Sensationalism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Taboo in motion pictures. --- Psychological aspects. --- Exploitation films --- Media and Communications --- Alejandro Jodorowsky --- Autism --- Gilles Deleuze --- Suicide --- Vomiting

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"Shocking Cinema of the 70s casts a transnational net to focus on 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. Julian Petley and Xavier Mendik assess how the production values, narrative features and critical receptions of these 'controversial' films can be linked to the wider historical and social forces that were dominant during this decade and continue to resonate in our current historical moment"--

Motion pictures --- Histoire du cinéma --- Sensationalism in motion pictures. --- Motion picture industry --- History --- Production and direction. --- History. --- Histoire du cinéma

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The Style of Sleaze reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations - blaxploitation, horror and sexploitation - indicate a concurrent evolution of filmmaking that could be seen as an identifiable cinematic movement.

Exploitation films --- Blaxploitation films --- Motion pictures --- Action films, Black --- Black action films --- Black exploitation films --- Blacksploitation films --- Exploitation films, Black --- Sensationalism in motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- History --- History