Research Catalog

Title

Bad boy bubby / Gabrielle Murray.

Author

Murray, Gabrielle,

Publication

• Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• ©2013

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Description

xix, 131 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.

Summary

Bad Boy Bubby focuses on a 35 year-old man-child whose mother/keeper keeps him imprisoned in a windowless hovel. From the moment it entered the festival cycle in 1993, the film has polarized audiences. This book examines how and why the film produced such conflicting responses, as well as reviewing its current relevance.

Series Statement

Controversies

Uniform Title

Controversies (Palgrave Macmillan)

Subject

• Bad boy Bubby (Motion picture)
• Mothers and sons in motion pictures
• People with mental disabilities in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-123) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1: Somewhere between exploitation and art cinema -- A Brief History -- Casting -- The Shoot: Cinematic Experimentation -- Festival Fame and the OCIC Award -- Pt. 2: Censorship, film festival classifications and pressure groups -- Classification Exemptions -- Distribution, Neglect and Controversy -- The Italian Contradiction -- Pt. 3: Animal cruelty and the cinema -- Animal Cruelty and Audience Affect -- Laws and Regulations -- The Peculiar Case of C̀rush Videos' -- Australia and Animal Rights -- Domestic, Feral or Stray? -- Pt. 4: Key scene analysis -- Huit Clos -- Cockroaches -- Incest and Fear -- It's All about the Cat -- Pt. 5: Key themes -- Media Outrage and Criminal Associations -- Sons and Mothers -- Disability -- Innocence -- Pt. 6: Legacy -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Key Details -- Appendix B: Notes -- Appendix C: References -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780230296763 (pbk.)
• 0230296769 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library