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Foreword: I.A.: I-won't-suck-the-mainstream-art / Lloyd Kaufman -- Introduction: Explorations underground: American film (ad)ventures beneath the Hollywood radar / Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider -- 'No worse than you were before': theory, economy and power in Abel Ferrara's 'The addition' / Joan Hawkins -- Radley Metzger's 'Elegant arousal': taste, aesthetic distinction and sexploitation / Elena Gorfinkel -- Curtis Harrington and the underground roots of the modern horror film / Stephen R. Bissette -- 'Special effects' in the cutting room / Tony Williams -- Real(ist) horror: from execution videos to snuff films / Joel Black -- Report on Bruce Coner's 'Report' / Martin F. Norden -- Voyeurism, sadism and transgression: screen notes and observations on Warhol's 'Blow job' and 'I, a man' / Jack Sargeant -- 'You bled my mother, you bled my father, but you won't bleed me': the underground trio of Melvin Van Peebles / Garrett Chaffin-Quiray -- Doris Wishman meets the avant-garde / Michael J. Bowen -- Full throttle on the highway to hell: mavericks, machismo and mayhem in the American biker movie / Bill Osgerby -- Ideal cinema of Harry Smith / Jonathan L. Crane -- What is the neo-underground and what isn't: a first consideration of Harmony Korine / Benjamin Halligan -- Underground America 1999 / Annalee Newitz -- Phantom menace: killer fans, consumer activism and digital filmmakers / Sara Gwenllian Jones -- Film co-ops: old soldiers from the sixties still standing in battle against Hollywood commercialism / Jack Stevenson -- 'Gouts of blood': the colourful underground universe of Herschell Gordon Lewis / Interview by Xavier Mendik -- Theory of xenomorphosis / Nick Zedd -- Visions of New York: films from the 1960s underground / David Schwartz -- Tasteless art: Waters, Kaufman and the pursuit of 'pure' gross-out / Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Scheider. |
