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Alternative Europe
Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945
Edited by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik
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Book Presentation:
his second title in the AlterImage series that investigates previously under-explored areas of popular and cult cinema (Underground U.S.A. being the first volume) features over 20 essays from an eclectic range of writers uncovering the cult cinema of Europe. The writers consider such unusual and diverse topics as Russian horror cinema, British exploitation, Belgian alternative cinema and Black 'Emmanuelle' films. Alternative Europe also includes exclusive interviews with such 'trash' film directors as Jess Fano and Brian Yuzna (Reanimator, etc.).
About the authors:
Xavier Mendik is director of the Cult Film Archive, Northampton, UK, and general editor of the AlterImage series. Ernest Mathijs is lecturer in film studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
See the publisher website: Wallflower Press
> From the same authors:
The Screen Censorship Companion (2024)
Critical Explorations in the Control of Film and Screen Media
Dir. Daniel Biltereyst and Ernest Mathijs
Subject: Sociology
The Cinema of David Cronenberg (2008)
From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero
Subject: Director > David Cronenberg
Lord of the Rings (2006)
Popular Culture in Global Context
Dir. Ernest Mathijs
Subject: One Film > The Lord of the Rings
Underground U.S.A. (2003)
Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon
Dir. Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider
Subject: Countries > United States
> On a related topic:
Perverse Titillation (2011)
The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980
by Danny Shipka
Science on Screen and Paper (2024)
Media Cultures and Knowledge Production in Cold War Europe
Dir. Mariana Ivanova and Juliane Scholz
Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe (2024)
1940s to 1980s
Dir. Michael Baumgartner and Ewelina Boczkowska
The Routledge Companion to European Cinema (2024)
Dir. Gábor Gergely and Susan Hayward
European Film Remakes (2021)
Dir. Eduard Cuelenaere, Gertjan Willems and Stijn Joye
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