AmaiStina
09-24-2005, 04:29 PM
on pages 374 & 375 of Screen magazine. 36:4 Winter 1995 in an article called " 'Trashing' the academy: taste, excess, and an emerging politics of cinematic style," Jeffrey Sconce talks about readers of non-mainstream publications.
he notes, "At times, factions of the paracinematic audience have little patience even for one another. This rift is perhaps most pointedly embodied by the competing agendas of Film Threat and Psychotronic Video, two fanzines turned magazines with international circulations that promote rival visions of the 'trash' aesthetic. While Psychotronic concentrates on the sizable segment of this community interested in uncovering and collecting long lost titles from the history of exploitation, Film Threat looks to transgressive aesthetics/genres of the past as avant-garde inspiration for contemporary independent filmmaking, championing such 'underground' auteurs sucha as Nick Zedd and Richard Kern. In a particularly nasty swipe, a subscription form for Film Threat features a drawing of the 'typical' Film Threat reader, portrayed as a dynamic, rockabilly-quiffed hipster surrounded by admiring women. This is juxtaposed with a drawing of the 'typical' Psychotronic reader, depicted as passive, overweight and asexual, with a bad complexion."
Didnt put it in reading about good books lately b/c i thought this was much more popcorn worthy.
he notes, "At times, factions of the paracinematic audience have little patience even for one another. This rift is perhaps most pointedly embodied by the competing agendas of Film Threat and Psychotronic Video, two fanzines turned magazines with international circulations that promote rival visions of the 'trash' aesthetic. While Psychotronic concentrates on the sizable segment of this community interested in uncovering and collecting long lost titles from the history of exploitation, Film Threat looks to transgressive aesthetics/genres of the past as avant-garde inspiration for contemporary independent filmmaking, championing such 'underground' auteurs sucha as Nick Zedd and Richard Kern. In a particularly nasty swipe, a subscription form for Film Threat features a drawing of the 'typical' Film Threat reader, portrayed as a dynamic, rockabilly-quiffed hipster surrounded by admiring women. This is juxtaposed with a drawing of the 'typical' Psychotronic reader, depicted as passive, overweight and asexual, with a bad complexion."
Didnt put it in reading about good books lately b/c i thought this was much more popcorn worthy.