Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde
Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde
by Joan Hawkins
University of Minnesota Press, 2000 Cloth: 978-0-8166-3413-2 | Paper: 978-0-8166-3414-9 Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.E96H38 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 791.436164
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
I.
Paracinema Culture and Psychotronic Style
1.
Sleaze-Mania, Euro-trash, and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture
2.
Medium Cool: Video Culture, Video Aesthetics
II.
At the Crossroads
3.
Art Houses and Horrorshows; or, Pauline Kael Meets Georges Franju
4.
The Scalpel's Edge: Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage
5.
The Anxiety of Influence: Georges Franju and the Medical Horrorshows of Jess Franco
III.
When Horror Meets the Avant-garde
6.
Exploitation Meets Direct Cinema: Yoko Ono's Rape and the Trash Cinema of Michael and Roberta Findlay
7.
From Horror to Avant-garde: Tod Browning's Freaks
8.
Monsters in the Art World: Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey