Book: 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.
Details of Book: Offensive Films Book: Offensive Films
Author: Mikita Brottman
ISBN: 082651491X
ISBN-13: 9780826514912
, 978-0826514912
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 2005/11/30
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Number of Pages: 205
Language: English