Kate Egan

Trash or treasure

Censorship and the changing meanings of the video nasties

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Produktbeschreibung

Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British circulation of the video nasties - A term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s but which continues to have cultural resonance in Britain up to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780719072338
• ISBN-10: 0719072336
• Artikelnr.: 34744517

Autorenporträt

Kate Egan is Lecturer in Film Studies in Aberstwyth University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the video nasties and the consequences of censorship.
Producing the nasties 1. The British art of policing cultural boundaries:
the legacy of British horror film reviewing 2. Reconsidering 'the plague
years': the marketing of the video nasties 3. A 'real horror show': the
video nasty press campaign. Cults, collectors and cultural memory 4.
Mapping out the territory of a fan culture: video nasties and the British
horror magazine 5. Facts, lists and memories: 'masculine' identities and
video nasty websites 6. The celebration of a 'proper product': exploring
video collecting through the video nasties Re-releases and re-evaluations
7. Previously banned: remarketing the nasties as retro products 8. Low or
high? Film Four, film festivals and the nasties Conclusion: the nasties,
British film culture and cross-cultural reception