Nasty Business : The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties

McKenna, Mark

Edinburgh University Press（2020/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474451086
• DDC分類 791.430941

Full Description

The history of the 'video nasties' has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined. However, the industry that gave rise to the category has received scant little attention. Earlier histories have tended to foreground issues of censorship, and as such, offer only glimpses of an under explored industrial history of British video. This book focuses explicitly on an industry that is still portrayed in heavily caricatured terms, that is frequently presented as immoral or corrupt, and that continues to be understood through the rhetoric of the tabloid press, as 'merchants of menace'.

Contents

Introduction: It Was The Best Of Times. It Was The Worst Of Times...

1. A Very Nasty Business: Complicating the History of the Video Nasties

2. Tracking Home Video: Independence, Economics, and Industry

3. Historicising the New Threat

4. Trailers, Taglines and Tactics: Selling Horror Films On Video and DVD

5. Branding and Authenticity

6. Previously Banned: Building a Commercial Category

7. The Art of Exploitation.

Conclusion: The Golden Age of Exploitation?

Appendices

Bibliography