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Introduction: American Extreme

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
This dossier brings together a collection of articles on a number of filmmakers and filmmaking practices a little beyond Senses of Cinema’s typical focus. This serves as an introduction to and consideration...
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The Pornographic Imagination Manifest: Notes On Usama Alshaibi’s The Amateurs (2003)

Jack Sargeant
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
“I think there was something internally stimulating to go (to) that space, collectively there was a high, a mutual fantasy, we forgot we were making anything – it seemed like the performance was really for...
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Fear of a Black Phallus: Jamaa Fanaka’s Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)

Dean Brandum
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
When African-American filmmaker Jamaa Fanaka passed away in 2012, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive Jan-Christopher Horak stated that Fanaka was dismayed that his films were picked up...
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Divine Dog Shit: John Waters and Disruptive Queer Humour in Film

Stuart Richards
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
John Waters is an icon of queer cinema, known for his use of grossness and bad taste. However, it is not grotesqueness alone that makes queer film akin to Waters’ work; his humour is distinctly politically...
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Deracination, Disembowelling and Scorched Earth Aesthetics: Feminist Cinemas, No Wave and the Punk Avant Garde

Maura Edmond
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
This article discusses cinematic extremes - on-screen sex and violence but also extremes of grain and texture and production cultures - in the work of several women directors closely associated with the...
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“A Malignant, Seething Hatework”: An Introduction to US 21st Century Hardcore Horror

James Aston
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
Abstract >> Hardcore horror meets at the intersection between pornography and horror. Films such as Fred Vogel’s August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan’s Amateur Porn Star Killer series, Lucifer...
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Goodbye, McFly: Crispin Glover’s ‘It’ Trilogy and the Cinema of Reaction

Keva York
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
In directing the taboo-themed It trilogy Crispin Hellion Glover broke away from his iconic role as George McFly in blockbuster Back to the Future (1985). In What is it? (2005) Glover’s insistence that he...
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Making Revolutionary Love: Radical Sex and Cooptation in the Films of Bruce LaBruce

Jasmine McGowan
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
Using the starting point of the MoMA retrospective of the works of Bruce LaBruce, this article confronts the shifting perceptions of LaBruce as a transgressive provocateur of cinema. I argue that his most...
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What’s Inside a Girl?: Porn, Horror and the Films of Roberta Findlay

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
“What's inside a girl? Ain't no hotter question in a so-called civilized world.” – The Cramps, “What’s Inside a Girl?” (1986) “You know the money shots in porn films? Well, this was just a...
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The Invisible Exploding Woman

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
September 2016
American Extreme
Issue 80
In July 1974 in the seaside city of Sarasota, Florida, television journalist Christine Chubbuck pulled out a gun while broadcasting the news and shot herself in the head on live television. The whereabouts of...

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