Nasty Business : : The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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McKenna, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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