Trash
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Trash, wont pick it up And please dontcha ask me if I love you --"Trash" (1973) by New York Dolls "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 |
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Waste, rubbish, trash, garbage, or junk is unwanted or undesired material.
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Namesakes
- "Trash" (New York Dolls song), a song by the New York Dolls
- Trash (1970 film), a 1970 American film
- "Trash, Art, and the Movies" (1969), an essay by Pauline Kael
Noun
- Useless things to be discarded
- A container into which things are discarded
- Something of poor quality
- (slang, usually derogatory) Lower class people (white trash)
Etymology
From Middle English trasch, trassh, probably a dialectal form of *trass (compare Orkney truss, English dialectal trous), from Old Norse tros (“rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs”). Compare Norwegian trask (“lumber, trash, baggage”), Swedish trasa (“rag, cloth, worthless fellow”), Swedish trås (“dry fallen twigs, wood-waste”). Compare also Old English þreahs, þreax (“rottenness, rubbish”).
Trash culture
Trash culture is an instance of low culture. The term trash culture redirects here.
Related lemme are bad taste, exploitation, Euro-trash, grindhouse film theatres, junk, Mondo films, sleaze, trash cinema, trash fiction, trash-talk and white trash.
Bibliography
- Kitsch: The world of Bad Taste (1968) by Gillo Dorfles
- The Redneck Manifesto (1997) - Jim Goad
- Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters (2002) - Jacques Boyreau
- An Aesthetics of Junk Fiction (1990) - Thomas John Roberts
- Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition - Richard Keller Simon
- Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience (1997) - Deborah Cartmell, I. Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, Imelda Whelehan
- The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (2003) - Stacey Michele Olster
See also