'Trashing' the Academy  

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"In addition to art film, horror, and science fiction films, "paracinema" catalogues "include entries from such seemingly disparate genres" as badfilm, splatterpunk, mondo films, sword-and-sandal epics, Elvis flicks, government hygiene films, Japanese monster movies, beach party musicals, and "just about every other historical manifestation of exploitation cinema from juvenile delinquency documentaries to ... pornography"-- "'Trashing' the Academy"" (1995) by Jeffrey Sconce


"Ironically, this inadvertent tendency to confine exploitation to the margins of critical debate in the very act of investigating it has recently extended to the academy itself. In his useful article, "Trashing the academy", Jeffrey Sconce locates ..."--Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience (1997) Deborah Cartmell

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"'Trashing' the Academy: Taste, Excess, and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style" (Screen vol. 36 no. 4, Winter 1995, pp. 371–393) is a text by Jeffrey Sconce.

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