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The Films of Andy Milligan

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de Rob Craig

Type

Film Reviews

Sujet

Director > Andy Milligan

Mots Clés

Andy Milligan, horror

Année d'édition

2012

Editeur

McFarland & Co

Langue

anglais

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Format

Paperback • 312 pages
7 x 10 inches (18 x 25.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7864-6597-2

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Grindhouse filmmaker Andy Milligan has been the subject of a revealing biography, and boasts a grassroots fan base, but his remarkable work has thus far received no serious critical overview. Working virtually alone, on infinitesimal budgets, often using a used 16mm newsreel camera, Milligan crafted some of the most unique melodramas of the 1960s and 1970s. Often mounted as period pieces, using costumes sewn by the filmmaker, Milligan’s gritty, bizarre films come across as inimitable meldings of the avant-garde theater of Jean Genet, the experimental films of Jack Smith, and the random cinéma vérité of a lunatic with a home movie camera. Yet Milligan’s films are anything but random, ruminating at length on profound sociocultural themes of the day, including the emptiness of the sexual revolution. Evident throughout all the films are two pet themes: a rabid deconstruction of the heterosexual paradigm, and a grotesque illumination of the family as breeder of dysfunction.

À propos de l'auteur :
Rob Craig has been writing about cult film for more than twenty years. His work has been published in such magazines as Videoscope, Screem and Horror-Wood.

Revue de Presse:
"Recommended"—Bookgasm
"Excellent…a must…happy reading"—Plan 9 Crunch

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