Underground U.S.A.: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

I.A.: I-WON’T-SUCK-THE-MAINSTREAM ART

EXPLORATIONS UNDERGROUND: AMERICAN FILM (AD)VENTURES BENEATH THE HOLLYWOOD RADAR

Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider

01 ‘NO WORSE THAN YOU WERE BEFORE’: THEORY, ECONOMY AND POWER IN ABEL FERRARA’S ‘THE ADDICTION’

02 RADLEY METZGER’S ‘ELEGANT AROUSAL’: TASTE, AESTHETIC DISTINCTION AND SEXPLOITATION

Elena Gorfinkel

03 CURTIS HARRINGTON AND THE UNDERGROUND ROOTS OF THE MODERN HORROR FILM

Stephen R. Bissette

04 ‘SPECIAL EFFECTS’ IN THE CUTTING ROOM

05 REAL(IST) HORROR: FROM EXECUTION VIDEOS TO SNUFF FILMS

06 A REPORT ON BRUCE CONNER’S ‘REPORT’

Martin F. Norden

07 VOYEURISM, SADISM AND TRANSGRESSION: SCREEN NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON WARHOL’S ‘BLOW JOB’ AND ‘I, A MAN’

08 ‘YOU BLED MY MOTHER, YOU BLED MY FATHER, BUT YOU WON’T BLEED ME’: THE UNDERGROUND TRIO OF MELVIN VAN PEEBLES

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

09 DORIS WISHMAN MEETS THE AVANT-GARDE

Michael J. Bowen

10 FULL THROTTLE ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELL: MAVERICKS, MACHISMO AND MAYHEM IN THE AMERICAN BIKER MOVIE

11 THE IDEAL CINEMA OF HARRY SMITH

Jonathan L. Crane

12 WHAT IS THE NEO-UNDERGROUND AND WHAT ISN’T: A FIRST CONSIDERATION OF HARMONY KORINE

Benjamin Halligan

13 UNDERGROUND AMERICA 1999

14 PHANTOM MENACE: KILLER FANS, CONSUMER ACTIVISM AND DIGITAL FILMMAKERS

Sara Gwenllian Jones

15 FILM CO-OPS: OLD SOLDIERS FROM THE SIXTIES STILL STANDING IN BATTLE AGAINST HOLLYWOOD COMMERCIALISM

16 ‘GOUTS OF BLOOD’: THE COLOURFUL UNDERGROUND UNIVERSE OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS

Interview by Xavier Mendik

17 THEORY OF XENOMORPHOSIS

18 VISIONS OF NEW YORK: FILMS FROM THE 1960s UNDERGROUND

19 A TASTELESS ART: WATERS, KAUFMAN AND THE PURSUIT OF ‘PURE’ GROSS-OUT

Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Scheider