Tales Of The Video Nasty

Author : Nathan Toulane
Publisher : Velvet
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Tales of the Video Nasty by Nathan Toulane Pdf

A carefree memoir of growing up during the golden age of VHS and video rental stores in the 1980s. This humorous nostalgia trip rewinds to an era of chunky plastic tapes, horror movie sleepovers, and rewinding woes. Relive the magic of discovering cinema through the blurry analogue footage, cheesy effects, and garish cover art of the VHS generation. A warm remembrance of all that was sublime and ridiculous about watching movies on tape during the heyday of the video rental store. From dodgy splatter films to DIY camcorder creations, this book celebrates a bygone media age and the role VHS played in shaping many a budding filmmaker. Sit back and soak in the fuzzy signals of yesteryear for a heartfelt trip back to the fascinating world of VHS.

Author : David Huxley
Publisher : Headpress
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 190048613X

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Nasty Tales by David Huxley Pdf

From their origins in the 1960s, through to titles such as Cozmic Comics, Blood Sex, and Terror and Sin City, through to the emergence of Viz in the 1980's, Nasty Tales covers the turbulent history of these comics and the culturual instability from which they emerged. Incorporating many exclusive interviews with key artists and publishers, it offers a unique insight into an hitherto unseen and undocumented world.

Author : James Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911121707

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Video Nasty Mayhem by James Simpson Pdf

Video Nasty Mayhem opens the vault on the British film distributor VIPCO, and finds there are plenty of surprises. The book also includes reviews on more than 60 of VIPCO's films, offers a standalone chapter on cult director Lucio Fulci, highlights Mike Lee's turn at producing movies, and more.

Author : David Kerekes,David Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110143919

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See No Evil by David Kerekes,David Slater Pdf

Chronicles the phenomenal rise of video culture and its alleged associations with criminal activity, Containing studies of murder cases supposedly influenced by films, interviews with the video underground producers, and insightful commentary on contentious movies, See No Evil is an exhaustive and startling overview of Britain's video nasty culture. The eagerly awaited follow up to the best selling Killing for Culture.

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780809532063

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Weird Tales 290 (Spring 1988) by Darrell Schweitzer Pdf

The sixty-fifty anniversary issue of Weird Tales showcases the work of Featured Author Gene Wolfe and Featured Artist George Barr (who contributed all the artwork). Also includes work by Ramsey Campbell, F. Paul Wilson, T.E.D. Klein, Tanith Lee, and many more.

Author : Mark McKenna
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474451109

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Nasty Business by Mark McKenna Pdf

Considers the technological, economic and aesthetic histories of the early British video industry as part of the broader global film industry.

Author : Judith Anne Rice
Publisher : Follettbound
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1404688234

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Those mean nasty dirty downright disgusting but-- invisible Germs by Judith Anne Rice Pdf

Author : Folk Horror Revival
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780244068301

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Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies - Second Edition by Folk Horror Revival Pdf

A new and revised edition of the seminal tome Folk Horror Revival: Field Studies. A collection of essays, interviews and artwork by a host of talents exploring the weird fields of folk horror, urban wyrd and other strange edges. Contributors include Robin Hardy, Ronald Hutton, Alan Lee, Philip Pullman, Thomas Ligotti, Kim Newman, Adam Scovell, Gary Lachman, Susan Cooper and a whole host of other intriguing and vastly talented souls. An indispensable companion for all explorers of the strange cinematic, televisual, literary and folkloric realms. This edition contains numerous extra interviews and essays as well as updating some information and presented with improved design. 100% of all sales profits of this book are charitably donated at quarterly intervals to The Wildlife Trusts.

Author : Charles R. Acland
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816644721

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Residual Media by Charles R. Acland Pdf

In a society that awaits 'the new' in every medium, what happens to last year's new? From player pianos to vinyl records, and from the typewriter to the telephone, 'Residual Media' is an innovative approach to the aging of culture and reveals that, ultimately, new cultural phenomena rely on encounters with the old.

Author : Heidi Honeycutt
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781915316301

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I Spit On Your Celluloid by Heidi Honeycutt Pdf

Slumber Party Massacre. Pet Sematary. Near Dark. American Psycho... These horror movies have heavily contributed to pop culture and are loved by horror fans everywhere. But so many others have been forgotten by history. From the first silent reels to modern independent films, in this book you’ll discover the creepy, horrible, grotesque, beautiful, wrong, good, and fantastic — and the one thing they share in common. This is the true history of women directing horror movies. Having conducted hundreds of interviews and watched thousands of horror films, Heidi Honeycutt defines the political and cultural forces that shape the way modern horror movies are made by women. The women’s rights and civil rights movements, new distribution technology, digital cameras, the destruction of the classic studio system, and the abandonment of the Hays code have significantly impacted women directors and their movies. So, too, social media, modern ideas of gender and racial equality, LGBTQ acceptance, and a new generation of provocative, daring films that take shocking risks in the genre. Includes short films, anthologies, documentaries, animated horror, horror pornography, pink films, and experimental horror. I Spit on Your Celluloid is a first-of-its-kind celebration, study, and “a book that needed to be written” (says cult filmmaker Stephanie Rothman). You will never look at horror movies the same way again!

Author : Erin E. MacDonald
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476638638

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Ian Rankin by Erin E. MacDonald Pdf

Ian Rankin is considered by many to be Scotland's greatest living crime fiction author. Most well known for his Inspector Rebus series--which has earned critical acclaim as well as scores of fans worldwide--Rankin is a prolific author whose other works include spy thrillers, nonfiction books and articles, short stories, novels, graphic novels, audio recordings, television/film, and plays. This companion--the first to provide a complete look at all of his writings--includes alphabetized entries on Rankin's works, characters, and themes; a biography; a chronology; maps of Rebus' Edinburgh; and an annotated bibliography. A champion of both Edinburgh and Scotland, Rankin continues to combine engaging entertainment with socio-political commentary showing Edinburgh as a microcosm of Scotland, and Scotland as a microcosm of the world. His writing investigates questions of Scottish identity, British history, masculinity, and contemporary culture while providing mystery readers with complex, suspenseful plots, realistic character development, and a unique mix of American hard-boiled and procedural styles with Scottish dialects and sensibilities.

Author : Julian Petley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748630936

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Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain by Julian Petley Pdf

How does film and video censorship operate in Britain? Why does it exist? And is it too strict? Starting in 1979, the birth of the domestic video industry - and the first year of the Thatcher government - this critical study explains how the censorship of films both in cinemas and on video and DVD has developed in Britain. As well as presenting a detailed analysis of the workings of the British Board of Film Classification, Petley casts his gaze well beyond the BBFC to analyse the forces which the Board has to take into account when classifying and censoring. These range from laws such as the Video Recordings Act and Obscene Publications Act, and how these are enforced by the police and Crown Prosecution Service and interpreted by the courts, to government policy on matters such as pornography. In discussing a climate heavily coloured by 30 years of lurid 'video nasty' stories propagated by a press which is at once censorious and sensationalist and which has played a key role in bringing about and legitimating one of the strictest systems of film and video/DVD censorship in Europe, this book is notable for the breadth of its contextual analysis, its critical stance and its suggestions for reform of the present system.

Author : Libby Brooks
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408857687

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The Story of Childhood by Libby Brooks Pdf

Childhood. We've all known it, but do we remember what it was like? Can we as adults relate to children or do we misunderstand them? Do we hanker after an unrealistic ideal of innocence that probably never was? To what extent has childhood become an adult-imagined universe? There is so much social anxiety surrounding their behaviour, nutrition, sexuality, consumerism and educational achievement that children may well have become the victims of inappropriate adult perceptions. In today's ASBO-afflicted Britain, Libby Brooks suggests that there is much we don't understand about contemporary childhood. The Story of Childhood explores this idea as Libby Brooks talks to nine very different children between the ages of four and sixteen growing up in Britain today. The public schoolboy, the young offender, the teenage mum, the country lad, for example, talk amusingly, frankly, and sometimes shockingly about their own lives conveying a sense of immediate experience that is thought-provoking and illuminating. Enriched by insights from literature, sociology, history and psychology, this is a remarkable piece of writing. Anyone who cares about the welfare of children should read this important book.

Author : Mathias Clasen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780197535929

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A Very Nervous Person's Guide to Horror Movies by Mathias Clasen Pdf

Why your worst nightmares about watching horror movies are unfounded Films about chainsaw killers, demonic possession, and ghostly intruders make some of us scream with joy. But while horror fans are attracted to movies designed to scare us, others shudder already at the thought of the sweat-drenched nightmares that terrifying movies often trigger. The fear of sleepless nights and the widespread beliefs that horror movies can have negative psychological effects and display immorality make some of us very, very nervous about them. But should we be concerned? In this book, horror-expert Mathias Clasen delves into the psychological science of horror cinema to bust some of the worst myths and correct the biggest misunderstandings surrounding the genre. In short and highly readable chapters peppered with vivid anecdotes and examples, he addresses the nervous person's most pressing questions: What are the effects of horror films on our mental and physical health? Why do they often cause nightmares? Aren't horror movies immoral and a bad influence on children and adolescents? Shouldn't we be concerned about what the current popularity of horror movies says about society and its values? While media psychologists have demonstrated that horror films indeed have the potential to harm us, Clasen reveals that the scientific evidence also contains a second story that is often overlooked: horror movies can also help us confront and manage fear and often foster prosocial values.

Author : David Knights,Hugh Willmott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349094769

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White-Collar Work by David Knights,Hugh Willmott Pdf

Part of a series of books based on papers delivered at the annual UMIST-Aston conference, combined with specially commissioned contributions, this text examines the labour process, focusing on the white-collar/non-manual sector of the work force.