| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 363 pages) : illustrations |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Contents |
Before and after The awful Dr. Orlof: constructing a "respectable" Jess Franco / Andy Willis -- Sleaze and cinephilia: Jess Franco in the sixties / Ian Olney -- "Hallo, hier spricht Jess Franco": how Franco recoded the Krimi / Nicholas G. Schlegel -- Latent durability in Jess Franco's films: his "horrotica" / Tatjana Pavlović -- Transgressive or maladjusted? Nymphomania, frigidity, and lesbianism in Franco's Gothic sexology / Glenn Ward -- Vampires, sex, and transgression: Jess Franco's and Jean Rollin's "Countercinema" / Aurore Spiers -- Elective affinities: another Sade of Jess Franco / Alberto Brodesco -- Scream queens and queer dreams: the politics of monotony and zoning out in Franco's direct-to-video productions / Finley Freibert -- Endless re-view: Jess Franco in Video watchdog and Eyeball / Antonio Lázaro-Reboll -- (Re)born again: when Jess Franco met the indies / Vicente Rodríguez Ortega and Rubén Romero Santos -- She kills in ecstasy and drives at dangerously high speeds: the death cult stardom of Soledad Miranda / Xavier Mendik |
| Summary |
The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesús 'Jess' Franco (1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the director of jazzy, erotically charged horror movies featuring mad scientists, lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but he also dabbled in a multitude of genres from comedy to science fiction to pornography. Although he built his career in the ghetto of low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed to create a body of work that is deeply personal, frequently political, and surprisingly poetic. Editors Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney have assembled a team of scholars to examine Franco's offbeat films, which command an international cult following and have developed a more mainstream audience in recent years. Arguing that his multifaceted, paradoxical cinema cannot be pinned down by any one single approach, this edited volume features twelve original essays on Franco's movies written from a variety of different perspectives. The Films of Jess Franco does not avoid the methodologies most commonly used in the past to analyze Franco's work--auteur criticism, genre criticism, and cult film criticism--yet it does show how Franco's films complicate these critical approaches. This volume opens up fresh avenues for academic inquiry by considering his oeuvre from a range of viewpoints, including transnational film studies, cinephilia studies, and star studies. The book effectively meets the challenge of Franco's multidimensional cinema with multifaceted criticism--attentive to the shifting historical contexts, modes of production and consumption, and formats of Franco's work--that supplements current Franco scholarship and suggests exciting new directions for its further development. The Films of Jess Franco seeks to address the scholarly neglect of this legendary cult director and to broaden the conversation around the director's work in ways that will be of interest to fans and academics alike |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Franco, Jesús, 1930-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Franco, Jesús, 1930-2013 fast |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio, editor
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Olney, Ian, editor
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| ISBN |
9780814343173 |
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0814343171 |
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