Offensive Films
by Mikita Brottman
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Brottman offers up a study of movies so offensive, some are practically unwatchable. From the ever-popular Faces of Death movies to purported snuff films, from classic B-movies such as The Tingler, to more popular but no less controversial films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Brottman takes a wide-eyed look at movies most folks watch only through parted fingers. While most critics have been quick to dismiss such films as mere shock-fests (if they even bother to talk about them at all), show more Brottman argues that these movies tell us quite a bit about who we are as a society, what makes us anxious, and what taboos we truly believe cannot be crossed. Part anthropology, part psychoanalysis, Offensive Films vivisects these movies in order to figure out just what about them is so offensive, obscene, or bizarre. In the end, Brottman proves that these films, shunned from the cinematic canon, work on us in sophisticated ways we often choose to remain unaware of. show lessTags
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Mikita Brottman, PhD, is an Oxford-educated scholar, author, and psychoanalyst. She has written seven previous books, including The Great Grisby: Two Thousand Years of Literary, Royal Philosophical, and Artistic Dog Lovers and Their Exceptional Animals, and is a professor of humanities at the Maryland institute College of Art in Baltimore, where show more she lives. show less
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- Related movies
- Freaks (1932 | IMDb); The Tingler (1959 | IMDb); Blood Feast (1963 | IMDb); The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974 | IMDb); Cannibal Holocaust (1980 | IMDb); Faces of Death (1978 | IMDb) (show all 7); Irreversible (2002 | IMDb)
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, Horror, General Nonfiction, History
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- 791.436164 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Special aspects of films; film adaptations, film genres {class specific films in 791.437} Films displaying specific qualities Tragedy and horror Horror
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- PN1995.9 .H6 .B67 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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