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• catalog abstract "William Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gross-out movie - is the first book to take this lowbrow product seriously. Writing about "movies that embraced the lowest common denominator as an aesthetic principle, movies that critics constantly griped about having to sit through," Paul examines their unique place in our culture. He focuses on gross-out horror and comedy films of the seventies and eighties - film cycles set in motion by the extraordinary successes of The Exorcist and Animal House. What links these genres together, Paul argues, is their concern with the human body - and all its scatological and sexual aspects. These "films of license," as Paul calls them, embrace "explicitness as part of their aesthetic." Tracing both of these culturally disreputable subgenres back to older traditions of festive comedy and Grand Guignol, Paul finds their precursors in horror films like The Birds and Night of the Living Dead as well as comedies such as M*A*S*H and Blazing Saddles that were produced under Hollywood's then recently liberalized censorship code. Moving on to mass tastes, Paul asserts that American audiences are "not without powers of discrimination." He argues that gross-out movies challenge social tastes and values, but without the self-consciousness of avant-garde art. Through interpretations of classics by Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, blaxploitation movies, horror films by David Cronenburg and Stanley Kubrick, and comedies starring John Belushi and Bill Murray, Paul establishes gross-out as a true genre - one that "speaks in the voice of festive freedom, uncorrected and unconstrained by the reality principle... aggressive, seemingly improvised, and always ambivalent."".
• catalog alternative "Modern Hollywood horror and comedy".
• catalog contributor b5792976.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "1. Venerable vulgarity : Rousing rabble ; A new language ; Dirty discourse ; The greater tradition ; A festive art -- 2. A new old comedy : Animal comedy ; Sex and power ; Outer limits of the inner city ; Bill Murray, anarchic conservative -- 3. Growing pains : Sexual politics ; Politics of the image ; Power without politics -- 4. The case for child abuse : Abusing children ; Possession, regression, rebellion ; The revenge of Oedipus -- 5. Revolting bodies : Menstruation, monstrosity, mothers ; Alien bodies -- 6. Laughing screaming : The comic beat of never-ending terror.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-496) and index.".
• catalog description "William Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gross-out movie - is the first book to take this lowbrow product seriously. Writing about "movies that embraced the lowest common denominator as an aesthetic principle, movies that critics constantly griped about having to sit through," Paul examines their unique place in our culture. He focuses on gross-out horror and comedy films of the seventies and eighties - film cycles set in motion by the extraordinary successes of The Exorcist and Animal House. What links these genres together, Paul argues, is their concern with the human body - and all its scatological and sexual aspects. These "films of license," as Paul calls them, embrace "explicitness as part of their aesthetic." Tracing both of these culturally disreputable subgenres back to older traditions of festive comedy and Grand Guignol, Paul finds their precursors in horror films like The Birds and Night of the Living Dead as well as comedies such as M*A*S*H and Blazing Saddles that were produced under Hollywood's then recently liberalized censorship code. Moving on to mass tastes, Paul asserts that American audiences are "not without powers of discrimination." He argues that gross-out movies challenge social tastes and values, but without the self-consciousness of avant-garde art. Through interpretations of classics by Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock, blaxploitation movies, horror films by David Cronenburg and Stanley Kubrick, and comedies starring John Belushi and Bill Murray, Paul establishes gross-out as a true genre - one that "speaks in the voice of festive freedom, uncorrected and unconstrained by the reality principle... aggressive, seemingly improvised, and always ambivalent."".
• catalog extent "xi, 510 p., [24] p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0231084641 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "023108465x (pbk.)".
• catalog isPartOf "Film and culture".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
• catalog subject "791.43/616 20".
• catalog subject "Comedy films History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Horror films History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Motion pictures Psychological aspects.".
• catalog subject "PN1995.9.H6 P35 1994".
• catalog subject "Sensationalism in motion pictures.".
• catalog subject "Sex in motion pictures.".
• catalog subject "Violence in motion pictures.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Venerable vulgarity : Rousing rabble ; A new language ; Dirty discourse ; The greater tradition ; A festive art -- 2. A new old comedy : Animal comedy ; Sex and power ; Outer limits of the inner city ; Bill Murray, anarchic conservative -- 3. Growing pains : Sexual politics ; Politics of the image ; Power without politics -- 4. The case for child abuse : Abusing children ; Possession, regression, rebellion ; The revenge of Oedipus -- 5. Revolting bodies : Menstruation, monstrosity, mothers ; Alien bodies -- 6. Laughing screaming : The comic beat of never-ending terror.".
• catalog title "Laughing, screaming : modern Hollywood horror and comedy / William Paul.".
• catalog title "Modern Hollywood horror and comedy".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".