Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945

by Ernest Mathijs (Editor), Xavier Mendik (Editor)

Overview

This second title in the AlterImage series that investigates previously under-explored areas of popular and cult cinema (Underground U.S.A. being the first volume) features over 20 essays from an eclectic range of writers uncovering the cult cinema of Europe. The writers consider such unusual and diverse topics as Russian horror cinema, British exploitation, Belgian alternative cinema and Black 'Emmanuelle' films. Alternative Europe also includes exclusive interviews with such 'trash' film directors as Jess Fano and Brian Yuzna (Reanimator, etc.).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781903364932
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/28/2004
Series:	Directors' Cuts
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.68(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Xavier Mendik is director of the Cult Film Archive, Northampton, UK, and general editor of the AlterImage series. Ernest Mathijs is lecturer in film studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Table of Contents

Making Sense of Extreme Confusion: European Exploitation and Underground Cinema, by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik
Section One: Theorising the Extremes of Exploitation and Underground Cinema
The Film You Are About to See is Based on Fact: Italian Nazi Sexploitation Cinema, by Mikel J. Koven
Section Two: Cultural Politics and Anxieties
Deep Inside Queen Kong: Anatomy of an Extremely Bad Film, by I.Q. Hunter
The Schoolgirl Reports and the Guilty Pleasure of History, by Jennifer Fay
Violence, Timing, and the Comedy Team in Alex de le Iglesia's Muertos de Risa (1999), by Dona M. Kercher
Mise-en-Scènes of the Impossible: Soviet and Russian Horror Films, by Christina Stojanova
Alternative Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity: S. and the Affaire Dutroux, by Ernest Mathijs
Section Three: Forza Italia!
Violent Justice: Italian Crime/Cop Films of the 1970s, by Christopher Barry
Masochistic Cinesexuality: the Many Deaths of Giovanni, by Lombardo Radice and Patricia MacCormack
Baby Oil and Burning Oil: An Analysis of The Bloody Pit of Horror, by Leon Hunt
Barred Nuns: Italian Nunsploitation Films, by Tamao Nakahara
Section Four: Sex and Monsters
Black Sex, Bad Sex: Monstrous Ethnicity in the Black Emanuelle Films, by Xavier Mendik
Emmanuelle Enterprises, by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Jean Rollin: Le Sang d'un Poète du Cinéma, by Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc
Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantics: Things to do in Germany, With the Dead, by Linnie Blake
Section Five: Auteurs and Publics Speak
A Very German Post-mortem: Director Jörg Buttgereit and Co-Writer/Assistant Director Franz Rodenkirchen Speak, by Marcel Perks
Male Masochism, Male Monsters: An Interview With Giovanni Lombardo Radice, by Patricia MacCormack
Interview with Alex de la Iglesia, by Xavier Mendik
A Special Report on European Fantastic Film Federations Festivals: A Report on the Brussels Festival of Fantastic Film, by Dirk Van Extergem
A Report on the Fantastisk Film Festival, by Magnus Paulson
A Report on the Espoo Cine Festival, by Tuomas Riskala
Section Six: Opening Up: Alternative Cinema as a Political Position
The Tasks of the European Underground: A Letter to Luis Buñuel, by Benjamin Halligan