Nasty Business : : The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties / / Mark McKenna.
Considers the technological, economic, and aesthetic histories of the early British video industry as part of the broader global film industryOffers a revisionist history that examines factors that contributed to the common understanding of the video nasties moment" outside of the established a...
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McKenna, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Nasty Business : The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties / Mark McKenna. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2020 1 online resource (216 p.) : 10 B/W illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times . . . -- 2 A Very Nasty Business: Complicating the History of the Video Nasties -- 3 Tracking Home Video: Independence, Economics and Industry -- 4 Historicising the New Threat -- 5 Trailers, Taglines and Tactics: Selling Horror Films on Video and DVD -- 6 Branding and Authenticity -- 7 ‘Previously Banned’: Building a Commercial Category -- 8 The Art of Exploitation -- 9 Conclusion: The Golden Age of Exploitation? -- APPENDIX I Video Nasty Artwork Analysis -- APPENDIX II Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) 39: Films Prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act in 1984 -- APPENDIX III The DPP ‘Dropped’ 33: Films Listed in the Department of Public Prosecutions List but not Prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act -- APPENDIX IV DPP Section 3 Titles: Films which were Liable for Seizure and Forfeiture under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act, 1959, but not Prosecution -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Considers the technological, economic, and aesthetic histories of the early British video industry as part of the broader global film industryOffers a revisionist history that examines factors that contributed to the common understanding of the video nasties moment" outside of the established and well documented social historyDraws upon global technological histories to better understand how they relate and impact on the British marketplace in the early 1980s, considering how these forces and factors contributed to the economics of the early British video industry Historicises and examines the marketing materials/promotional strategies that are believed to have triggered the video nasties’ moral panicExamines the ways in which distributors have capitalised on the video nasties and how that has altered the aesthetic of exploitation / horror film promotion in the United Kingdom and beyondIn 1984, a disparate group of horror films imported from the USA and Europe were banned in the United Kingdom. It is popularly believed that these so-called ‘video nasties’ were the product of Britain’s immoral and disreputable independent video industry and that – following a series of public complaints about the advertising being used to promote these films – a moral panic spontaneously erupted that resulted in the introduction of the Video Recordings Act in 1984.While neither of these statements is entirely accurate, both have contributed to a discursively constructed history that holds the independent video distributors entirely responsible for the events that followed, with the ushering-in of a scheme of government- sanctioned censorship that continues in Britain to this day.Through an exploration of the marketing and distribution of the video nasties, foregrounding technological, economic and aesthetic concerns, Nasty Business complicates the established history and contextualises the video nasties within the broader global landscape of an emergent home video industry. It moves beyond the explicitly social readings that have positioned the video nasties as a quintessentially British concern, instead reconsidering them as part of a broader global film industry with promotions demonstrative of wider industrial practice. And it tracks the development of the category and reveals other possible motives and benefits in the introduction of the Video Recordings Act." Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Motion pictures Great Britain Distribution History. Video recordings industry Great Britain History. Film, Media & Cultural Studies. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110780413 print 9781474451086 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474451109 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474451109 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474451109/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times . . . -- 2 A Very Nasty Business: Complicating the History of the Video Nasties -- 3 Tracking Home Video: Independence, Economics and Industry -- 4 Historicising the New Threat -- 5 Trailers, Taglines and Tactics: Selling Horror Films on Video and DVD -- 6 Branding and Authenticity -- 7 ‘Previously Banned’: Building a Commercial Category -- 8 The Art of Exploitation -- 9 Conclusion: The Golden Age of Exploitation? -- APPENDIX I Video Nasty Artwork Analysis -- APPENDIX II Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) 39: Films Prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act in 1984 -- APPENDIX III The DPP ‘Dropped’ 33: Films Listed in the Department of Public Prosecutions List but not Prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act -- APPENDIX IV DPP Section 3 Titles: Films which were Liable for Seizure and Forfeiture under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act, 1959, but not Prosecution -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times . . . -- 2 A Very Nasty Business: Complicating the History of the Video Nasties -- 3 Tracking Home Video: Independence, Economics and Industry -- 4 Historicising the New Threat -- 5 Trailers, Taglines and Tactics: Selling Horror Films on Video and DVD -- 6 Branding and Authenticity -- 7 ‘Previously Banned’: Building a Commercial Category -- 8 The Art of Exploitation -- 9 Conclusion: The Golden Age of Exploitation? -- APPENDIX I Video Nasty Artwork Analysis -- APPENDIX II Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) 39: Films Prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act in 1984 -- APPENDIX III The DPP ‘Dropped’ 33: Films Listed in the Department of Public Prosecutions List but not Prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act -- APPENDIX IV DPP Section 3 Titles: Films which were Liable for Seizure and Forfeiture under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act, 1959, but not Prosecution -- Bibliography -- Index |
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