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Down and dirty : Hollywood's exploitation filmmakers and their movies

Title
Down and dirty : Hollywood's exploitation filmmakers and their movies / by Mike Quarles.
Author
Quarles, Mike, 1957-
Publication
Jefferson, NC : McFarland, ©1993.

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Description
xiv, 193 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Motion picture producers and directors > United States
  • Motion picture industry > United States > History
  • Exploitation films > United States > History and criticism
  • Sensationalism in motion pictures
  • Sex in motion pictures
  • Violence in motion pictures
  • Horror films > History and criticism
  • Exploitation films
  • Horror films
  • Motion picture industry
  • Motion picture producers and directors
  • Biografie
  • Film
  • Filmregisseur
  • Gewaltdarstellung
  • Horrorfilm
  • Sexfilm
  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History
  • California > Los Angeles > Hollywood
  • United States
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Ted V. Mikels, or how to build a corpse-grinding machine for $38 -- Ray Dennis Steckler : Genre filmmaking in a funhouse mirror -- Humble origins : Big-timers with skeletons in their closets -- H.G. Lewis : More than gore -- Russ Meyer : T and A and $ -- Kroger Babb : Who was America's foremost hygiene commentator? -- John Waters : They used to call him "The prince of puke" -- Trailers : Coming to this theater -- George Romero : On Pittsburgh zombies and an Italian subgenre -- Fred Olen Ray : The direct-to-videl king -- Super 8 : The new medium of choice -- Tobe Hooper : The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- Dwain Esper : Exposing a nation's shame and getting away with it -- Andy Milligan : Period dramas for under $10,000 -- Larry Buchanan : Does Mars need women that badly? -- Doris Wishman : How did a nice girl like you wind up in a book like this? -- David Friedman : The promoter -- Rogues' gallery : A cast of dozens.
ISBN
  • 0899508774
  • 9780899508771
LCCN
92056683
OCLC
  • ocm28409568
  • 28409568
  • SCSB-2000741
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library