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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Briggs, host of the long-running cable shows Joe Bob's Drive-In Theatre and Monstervision, is an acknowledged king of cult movie history. From Blood Feast to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Briggs analyzes 20 films and points out their cultural significance. The book is not, as the London Evening Standard put it, "beyond the bounds of depravity," but rather a wryly amusing, informative study of productions that some publicly disparage and privately relish. Roger Vadim's 1956 And God Created Woman broke down sexual barriers. His directorial shaping of Brigitte Bardot into a sex symbol, despite handicaps of coarse voice, cold manner and expressionless face, is a lusty and intriguing French version of Pygmalion. The Svengali theme also relates to Deep Throat, when Linda Lovelace, its star, became a steamy sex goddess in the hands of husband Chuck Traynor. These two movies permanently altered the way the world views celluloid sex, and Briggs demonstrates how Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch did the same for violence. Briggs touches thoughtfully on controversial interpretations that The Wild Bunch film elicited before placing it in perspective as an artistically daring forerunner of modern action films. Shaft unleashed the blaxploitation boom, while The Exorcist turned Satan into a Hollywood high concept. The author also writes with insight and affection about such lurid enterprises as The Curse of Frankenstein and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The book merits attention from fans tired of high-minded essays about classics such as Citizen Kane, and explains why crass, tasteless pictures often make more impact than those released with the stamp of respectability. 50 illus.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Briggs brings the sensibilities of his late, lamented cable-TV review show, Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater, to the pages of this meditation on how sensational movies have changed film history and day-to-day culture. Briggs discusses the content, box-office success, and cultural effects of movies running the gamut from the mildly necrophilic Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to the fetishistic Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS, and from the clumsy if well-intentioned 1942 facts-o'-life flick Mom and Dad to the pornographic Deep Throat. Of And God Created Woman, Briggs notes that star Brigitte Bardot was "the Pia Zadora of her day . . . all cheesecake and no class" until she and director hubby Roger Vadim collaborated on this film that challenged traditional perceptions of women because "both Bardot and her movie character . . . loved sex." Briggs' persona as an off-kilter yet knowledgeable cineast licenses him to be pithy and amusing. A must-have for those who consider Mike Weldon's Psychotronic film guides essential. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Briggs, host of the long-running cable shows Joe Bob's Drive-In Theatre and Monstervision, is an acknowledged king of cult movie history. From Blood Feast to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Briggs analyzes 20 films and points out their cultural significance. The book is not, as the London Evening Standard put it, "beyond the bounds of depravity," but rather a wryly amusing, informative study of productions that some publicly disparage and privately relish. Roger Vadim's 1956 And God Created Woman broke down sexual barriers. His directorial shaping of Brigitte Bardot into a sex symbol, despite handicaps of coarse voice, cold manner and expressionless face, is a lusty and intriguing French version of Pygmalion. The Svengali theme also relates to Deep Throat, when Linda Lovelace, its star, became a steamy sex goddess in the hands of husband Chuck Traynor. These two movies permanently altered the way the world views celluloid sex, and Briggs demonstrates how Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch did the same for violence. Briggs touches thoughtfully on controversial interpretations that The Wild Bunch film elicited before placing it in perspective as an artistically daring forerunner of modern action films. Shaft unleashed the blaxploitation boom, while The Exorcist turned Satan into a Hollywood high concept. The author also writes with insight and affection about such lurid enterprises as The Curse of Frankenstein and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The book merits attention from fans tired of high-minded essays about classics such as Citizen Kane, and explains why crass, tasteless pictures often make more impact than those released with the stamp of respectability. 50 illus.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Briggs brings the sensibilities of his late, lamented cable-TV review show, Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater, to the pages of this meditation on how sensational movies have changed film history and day-to-day culture. Briggs discusses the content, box-office success, and cultural effects of movies running the gamut from the mildly necrophilic Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to the fetishistic Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS, and from the clumsy if well-intentioned 1942 facts-o'-life flick Mom and Dad to the pornographic Deep Throat. Of And God Created Woman, Briggs notes that star Brigitte Bardot was "the Pia Zadora of her day . . . all cheesecake and no class" until she and director hubby Roger Vadim collaborated on this film that challenged traditional perceptions of women because "both Bardot and her movie character . . . loved sex." Briggs' persona as an off-kilter yet knowledgeable cineast licenses him to be pithy and amusing. A must-have for those who consider Mike Weldon's Psychotronic film guides essential. Mike Tribby
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
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