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Teen Movie Hell
A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped! (livre en anglais)
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Description de l'ouvrage :
Born in the drive-in theater backseats of the 1970s, the demonic visions of Teen Movie Hell fueled the VCR, cable TV, and shopping mall multiplex booms of the 1980s before collapsing in the 1990s in a pixelated pile of cable dissipation and Internet indulgences. Between George Lucas's American Graffiti in 1973 and Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused twenty years later, lust-driven laugh riots on the order of Animal House, Porky's, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Revenge of the Nerds boomed at the box office and conquered pop culture by celebrating adolescent misbehavior run amok.
Puberty-powered comedy classics including Meatballs, Caddyshack, Valley Girl, and The Last American Virgin fused hormonal overloads with anti-authority abandon and below-the-belt slapstick to create a genre that also unleashed the anarchic, sex-mad likes of The Swinging Cheerleaders, H.O.T.S., Hardbodies, Private School, Joysticks, Spring Break, and Zapped!--as well as the mainstream variations Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Pretty in Pink.
All-seeing author Mike "McBeardo" McPadden (Heavy Metal Movies) passes righteous judgment over the entire genre, one boobs-and-boner opus at a time. In more than 350 reviews and dozens of bonus features, Teen Movie Hell lays the crucible of coming-of-age comedies bare, from party-hearty farces such as The Pom-Pom Girls, Up the Creek, and Fraternity Vacation to the extreme insanity exploding all over King Frat, Screwballs, The Party Animal, and Surf II: The End of the Trilogy.
Tap the keg, tailor your toga, and belly flop hard into the exploitation inferno of bikinis beaches, locker rooms, summer camps, study halls, wayward teachers, cool camp counselors, wet-T-shirts, custom vans, sexy ESP, shower peepholes, and other overlooked penal code violations!
À propos de l'auteur :
Mike "McBeardo" McPadden is the author of Heavy Metal Movies (2014, Bazillion Points), an editor at the Investigation Discovery web site CrimeFeed, and social media guru of Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. He lives in Chicago with his totally awesome wife Rachel and two party animals named Archie and Zelda.
Revue de Presse :
"I heartily hurrah this hormonal hagiography."--Patton Oswalt
"This book is good for people who like teen movies. Teen movies are good for people who like gratuitous nudity. I am those people!"--Gilbert Gottfried, USA Up All Night
"An egalitarian forum in which genre fanatics from all walks of life can reconsider seminal (huh-huh, huh-huh) favorites both mainstream and obscure."--Riotfest.org
"This R-Rated Rosetta Stone of celluloid abandon is a must-read for multiple generations of once-and-forever kids...a complete classic, written with all the enthusiasm of a Saturday night slam dance."--Allan Arkush, director of Rock n Roll High School
Teen Movie Hell is a B-movie lover s heaven, a double-barreled blast of memories and mammaries that transported me back to my days as a teenaged Blockbuster clerk. McPadden captures with humor and insight the powerful hold these tawdry treasures held over horny, undiscriminating teenaged boys in an age before the internet made naked boobs available to everyone. He is a goddamn literary shaman, conjuring up lost worlds of breasts and beer and desperation in his exhaustive, compulsively readable tome."--Nathan Rabin, The Onion A/V Club
"They all served a purpose, even the raunchy ones were fun sometimes. It was art. It was creativity the good, the bad, the ugly, the raunchy." --E. G. Daily (Valley Girl, No Small Affair, Better Off Dead)
Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Bazillion Points
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