the National Society of Film Critics on the low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks, and cult classics we love /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by David Sterritt and John Anderson
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiii, 240 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index
CONTENTS NOTE
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FILM NOIR. Detour -- Gun crazy -- Out of the past -- Pickup on South Street -- Kiss me deadly -- Crime wave -- Murder by contract -- The well -- NIGHTMARES IN TECHNICOLOR: NEO-NOIR. Reservoir dogs -- The last seduction -- One false move -- Point blank -- To live and die in L.A. -- Croupier -- FROM GRINDHOUSE TO ART HOUSE: MADNESS & MELODRAMA. Grindhouse -- Peeping Tom -- The conversation -- The stepfather -- Pretty poison -- SCIENCE FICTION. Invasion of the body snatchers -- The brother from another planet -- Primer -- Red planet Mars -- The space children -- HORROR & TERROR FILMS. Tales from the crypt -- The fly -- Carrie 2 -- The son of Kong -- I walked with a zombie -- May -- ROAD MOVIES. Stranger than paradise -- Two-land blacktop -- Vanishing point -- The big bus -- WESTERNS. The naked spur, Man of the West -- Will Penny -- Seven men from now -- Forty guns -- POLITICAL PICTURES. -- Platoon -- Salvador -- The president's analyst -- Man on a string -- Heroes for sale -- ROCK, POP and BEYOND. The Buddy Holly story -- King Creole -- American hot wax -- The girl can't help it -- Greendale -- CULT CLASSICS. Videodrome -- Vampire's kiss -- The core -- Beat the devil -- Mona -- MIDNIGHT MOVIES. Pink flamingos -- The rocky horror picture show -- Targets -- Night of the living dead -- Eraserhead