Cinema Inferno Celluloid Explosions from the

Addressing significant areas and eras of "transgressive" filmmaking, Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins is a collection of essays that explores many subgenres and styles that have received little critical attention. To provide a theoretical framework for transgressive cinema and its meaning, these articles discuss both contemporary films and those produced in the past fifty years.

Robert G. Weiner is associate humanities librarian at Texas Tech University, where he is the librarian for film studies. He is the author of Marvel Graphic Novels: An Annotated Guide 1965-2005 and editor of Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays (2009). John Cline is cochair for the transgressive/exploitation film area for the Southwestern Popular Culture Association.

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Realism(s)
The Neorealist Transgressions of Pier Paolo Pasolini	p. 3
From Chicago to Watts by Way of Paris and Hollywood: Art-Film Influence on Melvin Van Peebles's Early Features	p. 10
At the Heart of The Heart of the World: Guy Maddin in the Twenty-First Century	p. 30
Italian Horror/Gialli
Menopausal Monsters and Sexual Transgression in Argento's Art Horror	p. 53
The More You Rape Their Senses, the Happier They Are: A History of Cannibal Holocaust	p. 76
A Postcard from the Grindhouse: Exotic Landscapes and Italian Holidays in Lucio Fulci's Zombie and Sergio Martino's Torso	p. 101
Body in a Bed, Body Growing Dead: Uncanny Women in Joe D'Amato's Italian Exploitation Cinema	p. 124
New York State of Mind
Bernie's "Deathwish": History and Transgression in New York City	p. 145
Troma Entertainment: The Boobs, Blood, and Brains of Reel Independence	p. 157
Exploitation Films and Success: The Half-Told Melodramas of Andy Milligan	p. 171
Extreme European Cinema
B Is for Bile, Blood, and Bones: On Corporeal Bodies in the Films of Peter Greenaway	p. 193
The Films of the Vienna Action Group	p. 217
Reveries of Blood and Sand: The Cinema of Jean Rollin	p. 226
A Shadow Poet: Michael Haneke	p. 244
Culture at the Margins
Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Considering Theories of Nazi Film and Concepts of Transgression	p. 269
Christian Scare Films: The Unlikely Pairing of Director Ron Ormond and Preacher Estus Pirkle	p. 291
Stray Cat Rock: The Politics of Nikkatsu's "Bad Youth" Movies of the Early 1970s	p. 301
Contemporary Film
Flirting with Subversion: Mainstream Filmmaking, Transgression, and the Case of Joel Schumacher's 8MM	p. 323
Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies: Scum Rock and the Unlikely Career of Todd Phillips	p. 344
Cinema of Regression: Grindhouse and the Limits of the Spectatorial Imaginary	p. 358
Index	p. 381
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 389
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