Jones, Steve (2018) Preserved for Posterity? Present Bias and the Status of Grindhouse Films in the “Home Cinema” Era. Journal of Film and Video, 70 (1). pp. 3-16. ISSN 0742-4671
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Abstract
Despite the closure of virtually all original grindhouse cinemas, ‘grindhouse’ lives on as a conceptual term. This article contends that the prevailing conceptualization of ‘grindhouse’ is problematized by a widening gap between the original grindhouse context (‘past’) and the DVD/home-viewing context (present). Despite fans’ and filmmakers’ desire to preserve this part of exploitation cinema history, the world of the grindhouse is now little more than a blurry set of tall-tales and faded phenomenal experiences, which are subject to present-bias. The continuing usefulness of grindhouse-qua-concept requires that one should pay heed to the contemporary contexts in which ‘grindhouse’ is evoked.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Movies, Motion picture industry, Film criticism, Film prints, Entertainment, Audiences, Nostalgia, Film editing |
| Subjects: | W600 Cinematics and Photography |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Becky Skoyles |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2018 11:06 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2021 12:08 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/33498 |
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