Sleaze Artists

Jeffrey Sconce is Associate Professor in the Screen Cultures Program at Northwestern University. He is the author of "Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television," also published by Duke University Press.

Collection of essays on the impact that non-mainstream and middlebrow film genres have had on popular culture--including sexploitation, horror, cult, XXX, and indie films.

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 1Part 1: Sleazy HistoriesPandering to the “Goon Trade”: Framing the Sexploitation Audience through Advertising / Eric Schaefer 19Women’s Cinema as Counterphobic Cinema: Doris Wishman as the Last Auteur / Tania Modleski 47Representing (Repressed) Homosexuality in the Pre-Stonewall Hollywood Homo-Military Film / Harry M. Benshoff 71Pornography and Documentary: Narrating the Alibi / Chuck Kleinhans 96El signo de la muerte and the Birth of a Genre: Origins and Anatomy of the Aztec Horror Film 121Art House or House of Exorcism? The Changing Distribution and Reception Contexts of Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil / Kevin Heffernan 144Part 2: Sleazy AfterlivesTroubling Synthesis: The Horrific Sights and Incompatible Sounds of Video Nasties / Kay Dickinson 167The Sleazy Pedigree of Todd Haynes / Joan Hawkins 189Para-Paracinema: The Friday the 13th Film Series as Other to Trash and Legitimate Film Cultures / Matt Hills 219Boredom, Spasmo, and the Italian System / Chris Fujiwara 240Pure Quidditas or Geek Chic? Cultism as Discernment / Greg Taylor 259Movies: A Century of Failure / Jeffrey Sconce 273Selected Bibliography 311Contributors 321Index 325