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Coldiron, Katharine, author.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
Cult films -- History and criticism.
Cult films -- Stories, plots, etc.
B films -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
Popular culture.
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Junk film : why bad ...
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Junk film : why bad movies matter / by Katharine Coldiron.
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Coldiron, Katharine, author.
Denver, Colorado : Castle Bridge Media, [2023]
Subjects
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
Cult films -- History and criticism.
Cult films -- Stories, plots, etc.
B films -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- History.
Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc.
Popular culture.
ISBN:
9798987208311 (paperback) :
Description:
181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction. Welcome to the junkyard -- A monograph on bad film : Plan 9 from outer space -- Something to sing about : why Cop rock fails -- Complexploitation : Switchblades sisters and power dynamics -- At the end of a thousand years : the bad novels of Penn and Ros -- Intentionally disposable art : the Teen Agers films -- Paratext, bitches : how Best f(r)iends subverts contemporary film -- Never explain how : Death bed is good, actually -- When bad is baffling : After last season -- A disappointing lack of mayhem : Attack of the 50 ft. woman -- On the films of Neil Breen -- Dual plots, demon possession, De Palma : Ruby as an interesting failure -- Fuck you, come fuck me : sociopathy in Showgirls and Staying alive -- What we like : Safe haven and Girl in gold boots.
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Junk film's thirteen essays explore the failures of specific works created between the 1940s and the 2010s. Each demonstrates a different kind of failure, from mixing incompatible genres (Cop Rock) to stacking a screenplay with sociopaths (Staying Alive). The book uses a few basic theses about bad film and television to unpack these failures. Importantly, it shows what students of film can learn from bad movies: how to make art that works via watching art that doesn't.
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Hawaii State Library
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791.4375 Co
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