Exploring Film through Bad Cinema (Hardcover, 1)

1. Introduction: Creatures of the Screen

2. Early Film Form, Narrative, and the Cinema of Attractions

3. Cult, Pleasure, and Nostalgia: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and the Triumph of Irony

4. “Paging Dr. Freud!” Theorizing John Boorman’s Zardoz

5. Ed Wood and Auteur Theory

6. Nudie Cuties and Radical Roughies: Doris Wishman’s World of ExploitationHaHZHHJ

7. Reel Nasty: The Night Porter, The Gestapo’s Last Orgy, and Sadiconazista Cinema of the 1970s

8. She Found It at the Movies: Pauline Kael and the Mystery of the Disappearing Film Critic

9. When the Blockbuster Goes Bad: Cleopatra’s Epic Excess and the Italian Peplum

10. The Worst Masterpiece Ever Made: Heaven’s Gate and The New Hollywood

11. Where Did It All Go Right??

Index