Sleaze Artists

Sleaze Artists is a collection of essays on often little-known or derided works well outside the canon of film studies curricula: cliche horror movies, sexploitation, pornography, video nasties. Occasionally, the odd auteur pops up – someone like Todd Haynes, who double-dips in kitsch and art, or a semi-respectable figure such as Dario Argento, whose audacity makes him an accepted point of comparison to ‘film history proper’. But in most cases the contributions in Sleaze Artists tackle films and filmmakers at the very margins of cinema. Simply for putting such films under academic scrutiny Sleaze Artists is to be celebrated – though it is a pity there is not more room for films from outside the North American frame of reference (a frame that apparently accommodates Italian popular cinema very well, but seemingly not Asian film). Sconce has managed to assemble a lineup of expert contributors, each one of them a seasoned scholar of popular and lowbrow cinema. The sheer wealth of information they unearth makes Sleaze Artists a most valuable and much needed addition to the study of cinema

Art · Art history · Auteur theory · Cliché · Exhibition · Literature · Movie theater · Pity · Political science · Politics · Pornography · Scrutiny · Style (visual arts · Taste · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society