The Editors would like to thank all of the writers who contributed so much hard work to this volume. We would also like to offer our sincere thanks Lloyd Kaufman for contributing not only the foreword but also for the endless support and enthusiasm he offered this project. Thanks also to Larry Cohen, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and David F. Friedman for their time and assistance with tracking down illustrative material.
We would also like to thank Melissa Scheld, Stephen Abbott, and Matthew Bucher at Columbia University Press, Christopher Golden, Adrien Glover, The American Museum of the Moving Image (for kind help with stills), Elyse Pellman and Katheryn Winnick, as well as Howard Martin, Kate Cochrane and the staff at OPI Media.
We would also like to express our gratitude to colleagues and friends in the School of Cultural Studies at University College Northampton. In particular, we offer sincere thanks to George Savona, Peter Brooker, and the course team of the Media and Popular Culture degree for their support in establishing the Cult Film Archive and the writing projects which have emerged from this resource.
Finally, we offer our thanks to Yoram Allon, John Atkinson, Hannah Patterson and Howard Seal at Wallflower Press whose assistance and advice with this volume, and the AlterImage book series as a whole, remains invaluable.
The images used to illustrate the chapters ‘Doris Wishman Meets the Avant-Garde’ (with the exception of one image from the personal collection of Michael J. Bowen) and ‘“Gouts of Blood”: The Colourful Underground Universe of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ are courtesy of Something Weird Video, Inc and we would like to offer our sincere thanks to Lisa Petrucci who did so much to assist us with finding illustrative material. Readers wishing to access information on the company’s extensive catalogue of underground films should contact: Something Weird Video, P.O. Box 33664, Seattle, WA 98133, www.somethingweird.com.
The stills used to illustrate the foreword and the chapter ‘A Tasteless Art: Waters, Kaufman and the Pursuit of “Pure” Gross-Out’ (Troma images only) are courtesy of Troma Entertainment, for which we thank Doug Sakmann.
The rest of the images contained in the book are the property of the production or distribution companies concerned. They are reproduced here in the spirit of publicity and the promotion of the films in question.
This book is dedicated with love to Nicola.