Film
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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- "Film is a genuine art. It is genuine in that it is strictly popular. Like all the arts its apppeal is based on a few primitive, and therefore universal, instincts and mechanisms in man. Sex and combat are the chief instincts. --after Terry Ramsaye (1926).
- "Voyeurism is not just one of the primary tools of cinema, but of written fiction too."
- "The Kino is a vulgar modern entertainment and I doubt if it can tell us anything serious about the modern condition." --Sigmund Freud
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Research interests
- Art film
- Auteur theory
- Avant-garde film
- Banned films
- Cult film
- European cinema
- Experimental film
- Exploitation film
- Film criticism
- Film production as an art
- Film theory
- The male gaze
- Giallo
- Horror film
- Midi Minuit Fantastique French film magazine
- Paracinema
- Porn chic
- postmodern cinema
- Sex in film
- Surrealism and film
- Violence in film
- Effects of the home video revolution
- Voyeurism and the nature of cinema
- Unwatchability
- Category:World Cinema Classics
Biases of this wiki
- Disregard for Academy Awards
Bibliography
- Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
- Le Surréalisme au cinéma by Ado Kyrou
- Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
- Midnight Movies (1983)
- Incredibly Strange Films (1986)
- Cult Movie Stars
- 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2004)