FILM 3420D Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Diegesis, Autodidacticism, Softcore Pornography
4 Apr 2016
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Zombies as the proletariat of cinematic monsters. Allegories for the inner logic of capitalism. Viewer sharing the affects of the living dead. Asocial, lonely until they find each other. Subculture of enjoying films with eccentric subject matter and/or trash aesthetic. Promoted by magazines: psychotronic video, zontar, subhuman, trashola, Includes: bad film", splatterpunk, mondo" films, sword and sandal epics, elvis flicks, government hygiene films, japanese monster movies, beach-party musicals, juvenile delinquency documentaries, soft-core pornography, etc. Distinguished by a particular reading protocol: a counter-aesthetic worshiping cultural trash. Questions the legitimacy of reigning aesthetic discourses on movie art (both hollywood. Opposition to loosely defined cultural and economic elites: The search for badtruth is only for the brave few, like you, whose all-consuming. Hate is powerful enough to resist the temptations of refinement, taste, and. Escapism the miserable crumbs tossed from the table by the growing mass of. Republican thirty-something country club christian zombies who now rule this wretched planet. (zontar).
