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Robert Edgar Hunt

Robert Edgar is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at York St John University, UK, where he teaches creative writing and film and television. Publications include Screenwriting (2009) and Directing Fiction (2010) and most recently the second edition of The Language of Film(Bloomsbury, 2015). Research projects include work on Hitchcock and Herrmann, contemporary television and Top Gear. Robert was a co-editor of The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Basics Film-Making 03: Directing Fiction

AVA Publishing SA, 2010

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... TEXT 7/15/09 10:32:50 AM Apocalypto (dir: Mel Gibson 2006) Now for the sexy bit; the part where you feel like a real director. Getting out on location and fi lming things, surrounded by crew, technology and shouting at actors...

Banderas, Antonio (José Antonio Domínguez Banderas) (1960–)

José Arroyo

José Arroyo

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Journeys of Desire : European Actors in Hollywood: A Critical Companion

British Film Institute, 2006

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...Banderas is Spain’s most successful export to Hollywood since Antonio Moreno* in the silent era. He made his film debut in Laberinto de pasiones/Labyrinth of Passion (1982) and was a successful star of stage and screen in Spain before...

El Mariachi

Jason Wood

Jason Wood is a writer, film programmer and filmmaker. He is Artistic Director of Film at HOME, Visiting Professor at MMU and Visiting Professor at University of Salford, UK, and the author of a number of books including The Faber Book of Mexican Cinema (2006), Nick Broomfield: Documenting Icons (2005), 100 Road Movies (BFI 2007) and Talking Movies: Contemporary World Directors in Interview (2006). He contributes to a range of publications including Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Vertigo and Little White Lies. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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100 American Independent Films : BFI Screen Guides

British Film Institute, 2009

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...Hispanic director Robert Rodriguez burst onto the scene with this Mexican-set feature that was to become as exalted for its low budget as for its routine if stylishly executed content. With the dextrous Rodriguez handling the majority...

Digital 3D, Technological Auteurism and the Rhetoric of Cinematic Revolution

Chuck Tryon

Chuck Tryon

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Special Effects : New Histories, Theories, Contexts

British Film Institute, 2015

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...On 14 January 2012, moviegoers watching Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) at the Regal Union Square Theatre in Manhattan were confronted with an unexpected experience. Because the digital projection technology stopped working twice during...

“The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century”: The Carsploitation Film

Robert J. Read

Robert J. Read

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Grindhouse : Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The term “carsploitation,” like other subgenres that fall within the parameters of the grindhouse mythos—such as blaxploitation, nunsploitation, nazisploitation, Canuxploitation, and Ozploitation—denotes a body of cinematic production...

“Bigger Than a Payphone, Smaller Than a Cadillac”: Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes the Real Story

Neil Jackson

Neil Jackson teaches film at the University of Lincoln, UK, and has published on popular cinema in various books and journals. He is currently preparing a critical study of Hollywood’s representation of the adult film industry. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Grindhouse : Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...With special thanks to Martin Brooks and Oliver Carter for the supply of research material, and Phil Marson, Sarah Thomas, and Thomas Joseph Watson for some valuable suggestions.Quoted in Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes (Cass...

From “Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family” to Mature Pictures: I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema

Kevin Heffernan

Kevin Heffernan

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Grindhouse : Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Near the beginning of Finn Karlsson’s 1973 Danish hard-core film I Jomfruens Tegn (“In the Sign of the Virgin,” US title, Danish Pastries), Mr. Armand (Ole Søltof, star of major studio Palladium’s hugely popular Bedside series), a visiting...

Introduction: 42nd Street, and Beyond

Austin Fisher

Austin Fisher is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Bournemouth University, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (2011), founding co-editor of the “Global Exploitation Cinemas” book series and editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2015). He serves on the Editorial Board of the Transnational Cinemas journal, is Co-Chair of the SCMS “Transnational Cinemas” Scholarly Interest Group, and founder of the “Spaghetti Cinema” festival. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Johnny Walker

Johnny Walker is a Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, UK. His writing on horror and exploitation cinema can be read in journals such as Horror Studies, the Journal of British Cinema and Television, and in his forthcoming books Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015) and Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (Bloomsbury, 2015). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Grindhouse : Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...In the heart of little old New York,You’ll find a thoroughfare.It’s the part of little old New YorkThat runs into Times Square.Up until the release of Lloyd Bacon’s musical 42nd Street in 1933, the movie’s namesake had, for international...

Temporary Fleapits and Scabs’ Alley: The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia

Dean Brandum

Dean Brandum

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Grindhouse : Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Between 1974 and 1981 a cycle of nine exploitation features, in which western protagonists encounter indigenous cannibalistic tribes in the rain forests of Asia and South America, were produced by Italian film companies. Such “cannibal...

Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the “Indiansploitation” Cycle

David Church

David Church is a film historian specializing in genre studies, taste cultures, and histories of film exhibition and distribution. He is a Lecturer in Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University, USA, and is the author of Grindhouse Nostalgia: Memory, Home Video, and Exploitation Film Fandom (2015). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Grindhouse : Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...As low-budget independents working outside or on the margins of corporate capital, the exploitation filmmakers who served grind houses had long sought short-term economic returns from sensationalized depictions of timely or controversial...