Bad Girls Go to Hell
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| - | ''[[Sleaze artists: cinema at the margins of taste, style, and politics]]'' is a book on [[paracinema]] by [[Jeffrey Sconce]] published by [[Duke University Press]]. | ||
| - | From the publishers | + | '''''Bad Girls Go to Hell''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[1965 in film|1965]] [[sexploitation]] film, written, produced and directed by [[Doris Wishman]]. The film stars Gigi Darlene, George La Rocque, Barnard L. Sackett, Harold Key and Darlene Bennett. |
| - | ''[[Bad Girls Go to Hell]]''. ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]''. ''[[Eve and the Handyman]]''. Examining film culturer's ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, ''Sleaze Artists'' brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore the ineffable quality of "[[sleaze]]" in relation to a range of issues, including the production realities of low-budget exploitation pictures and the ever-shifting terrain of reception and taste. Writing about horror, exploitation, and sexploitation films, the contributors delve into topics ranging from the place of the "Aztec horror film" in debates about Mexican national identity to a cycle of 1960s films exploring homosexual desire in the military. One contributor charts the distribution saga of [[Mario Bava]]'s 1972 film ''[[Lisa and the Devil]]'' through the highs and lows of art cinema, fringe television, grindhouse circuits, and connoisseur DVD markets. Another offers a new perspective on the work of Doris Wishman, the New York housewife turned sexploitation director of the 1960s who has become a cult figure in bad-cinema circles over the past decade. Other contributors analyze the relation between image and sound in sexploitation films and Italian horror movies, the advertising strategies adopted by sexploitation producers during the early 1960s, the relationship between art and trash in [[Todd Haynes]]'s oeuvre, and the ways that the [[Friday the 13th]] series complicates the distinction between "trash" and "legitimate" cinema. The volume closes with an essay on why cinephiles love to hate the movies. Contributors. Harry M. Benshoff, Kay Dickinson, [[Chris Fujiwara]], Colin Gunckel, [[Joan Hawkins]], Kevin Heffernan, Matt Hills, Chuck Kleinhans, [[Tania Modleski]], [[Eric Schaefer]], Jeffrey Sconce, Greg Taylor. | + | This film marked the end of Wishman's lighthearted nudist camp series and "nudie-cutie" comedies (such as ''[[Nude on the Moon]]'') and a shift toward serious stories dealing with sex and violence. The new wave of harder-edged sexploitation and violent "roughie" films had already arrived a year earlier with [[David F. Friedman]] and [[Herschell Gordon Lewis]]' ''[[Scum of the Earth!]]'' (1963), [[Russ Meyer]]'s ''[[Lorna (film)|Lorna]]'' (1964), [[Michael Findlay]]'s ''Body of a Female'', and Joseph P. Mawra's ''Olga's House of Shame'' and its sequels. |
| + | This was also released on DVD as part of a large box set of vintage exploitation films called [[Girls Gone Bad]]. | ||
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Bad Girls Go to Hell is an American 1965 sexploitation film, written, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Gigi Darlene, George La Rocque, Barnard L. Sackett, Harold Key and Darlene Bennett.
This film marked the end of Wishman's lighthearted nudist camp series and "nudie-cutie" comedies (such as Nude on the Moon) and a shift toward serious stories dealing with sex and violence. The new wave of harder-edged sexploitation and violent "roughie" films had already arrived a year earlier with David F. Friedman and Herschell Gordon Lewis' Scum of the Earth! (1963), Russ Meyer's Lorna (1964), Michael Findlay's Body of a Female, and Joseph P. Mawra's Olga's House of Shame and its sequels.
This was also released on DVD as part of a large box set of vintage exploitation films called Girls Gone Bad.
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