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1/21/2016

Further exposure for SNUFF: REAL DEATH AND SCREEN MEDIA

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Rue Morgue has just published a follow-up piece about Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media on its website. The article features both Neil Jackson and Shaun Kimber and proclaims, rightly so, that the book is "the first-ever compendium of academic essays dealing with the topics attendant to real death on film."

The article, "Delve Deeper into Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media" can be accessed here.
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1/13/2016

Editorial Board member of a new series from University of Wales Press: "Horror Studies."

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I've known about this for sometime, but I'm now finally able to spread the word. Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes of Manchester Metropolitan University is now editor of a brand new series for University of Wales Press, Horror Studies: "the first academic series dedicated to Horror in all its fictional manifestations."

This is clearly an exciting time for those of us with research interests in horror. Xavier's new series, I am sure, will nicely complement mine and Austin Fisher's Global Exploitation Cinemas series with Bloomsbury.

I am very honoured to have been included as a board member alongside so many highly-regarded scholars. Proposals are being accepted now!

Full editorial board:
  • Dr Stacey Abbott
  • Dr Linnie Blake
  • Prof. Harry M. Benshoff
  • Prof. Fred Botting
  • Prof. Steven Bruhm
  • Prof. Steffen Hantke
  • Dr Joan Hawkins
  • Dr. Bernice M. Murphy
  • Prof. Agniesszka Soltysik
  • Dr Johnny Walker

Enquires can be forwarded to Dr  Aldana Reyes: X.Aldana-Reyes@mmu.ac.uk 
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1/8/2016

GRINDHOUSE contents revealed

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: 42nd Street, and Beyond
Austin Fisher and Johnny Walker

Chapter 1
Grinding out the Grindhouse: Exploitation, Myth and Memory
Glenn Ward

Chapter 2
Where Did We Come In?: The Economics of Unruly Audiences, Their Cinemas and Tastes, From Serial Houses to Grind Houses.
Phyll Smith

Chapter 3
Temporary Fleapits and Scabs’ Alley: The Theatrical Dissemination of Italian Cannibal Films in Melbourne, Australia
Dean Brandum

Chapter 4
Run, Angel, Run: Serial Production and the Biker Movie, 1966-72
Peter Stanfield

Chapter 5
“The Smashing, Crashing, Pileup of the Century”: The Carsploitation Film
Robert J Read

Chapter 6
Cars and Girls (and Burgers and Weed): Branding, Mainstreaming, and Crown International Pictures’ SoCal Drive-in Movies
Richard Nowell

Chapter 7
From “Sex Entertainment for the Whole Family” to Mature Pictures:  I Jomfruens Tegn and Transnational Erotic Cinema
Kevin Heffernan

Chapter 8
‘Bigger Than A Payphone, Smaller Than A Cadillac’: Porn Stardom in Exhausted: John C Holmes The Real Story
Neil Jackson

Chapter 9
From Opera House to Grindhouse (And Back Again):  Ozploitation In and Beyond Australia
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Chapter 10
Go West, Brother: the Politics of Landscape in the Blaxploitation Western
Austin Fisher

Chapter 11
Red Power, White Movies: Billy Jack, Johnny Firecloud, and the Cultural Politics of the “Indiansploitation” Cycle
David Church

Chapter 12
Sleazy Strip-Joints and Perverse Porn Circuses: The Remediation of Grindhouse in the Porn Productions of Jack the Zipper
Clarissa Smith

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1/3/2016

GRINDHOUSE manuscript submitted to the publisher

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Cover design by Mark McKenna
This evening, after many ups and downs, Austin Fisher and I submitted the manuscript of our edited collection, Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond, to Bloomsbury. The book is the first volume in our new book series, Global Exploitation Cinemas, and will be available -- along with the series' second volume, Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema by David Church -- in August 2016.

We are proud to have worked with so many excellent academics on this book. We will be announcing the contents shortly.

Synopsis
The pervasive image of New York’s 42nd Street as a hub of sensational thrills, vice and excess, is from where “grindhouse cinema,” the focus of this volume, stemmed. It is, arguably, an image that has remained unchanged in the mind’s eye of many exploitation film fans and academics alike. Whether in the pages of fanzines or scholarly works, it is often recounted how, should one have walked down this street between the 1960s and the 1980s, one would have undergone a kaleidoscopic encounter with an array of disparate “exploitation” films from all over the world that were being offered cheaply to urbanites by a swathe of vibrant movie theatres.
 
The contributors to Grindhouse: Cultural Exchange on 42nd Street, and Beyond consider “grindhouse cinema” from a variety of cultural and methodological positions. Some seek to deconstruct the etymology of “grindhouse” itself, add flesh to the bones of its cadaverous history, or examine the term’s contemporary relevance in the context of both media production and consumerism. Others offer new inroads into hitherto unexamined examples of exploitation film history, present snapshots of cultural moments that many of us thought we already knew.

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