Midnight Movies

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Eraserhead - The Night of the Living Dead - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Reefer Madness - Alice's Restaurant - Magical Mystery Tour - D.O.A. - A Clockwork Orange These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges. Supplemented with a new afterward detailing the accommodation of midnight movies into the mainstream and speculating on the future of the genre, Midnight Movies is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and future of American cinema.

Humor & Entertainment

J. Hoberman

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Movies

Harper&Row

Bill Viola, J. Hoberman, Donald Kuspit, Barbara London

Bill Viola

Donald Kuspit

Barbara, London

Museum of Modern Art

For the past dozen years, J. Hoberman has been publishing witty, impassioned, vivid film criticism in the pages of New York's alternative weekly, The Village Voice. His first collection includes a variety of these (mostly) movie reviews, as well as a number of longer essays and film-festival reports, all written during the 1980s. For Hoberman, film criticism is a form of social commentary, and his articles reflect a decade when an actor was president, the Vietnam War was refought on the nation's movie screens, and soundbites determined elections. The variety of Hoberman's interests and the intellectual depth of his critiques are remarkable. Writing from the perspective of Lower Manhattan, he places movies in the context of the other visual arts painting, photography, comics, video, and TV as well as that of postmodem theorists such as Leslie Fiedler and Jean Baudrillard. Demonstrating the widest range of any American film critic writing today, Hoberman is equally at home discussing the work of Steven Spielberg and Andrei Tarkovsky, films by cutting-edge artists Raul Ruiz and Yvonne Rainer, and historical figures as disparate as Charles Chaplin and Andy Warhol. "Vulgar Modernism" offers an entertaining, trenchant, informed, and informative view of the past decade's popular culture. J. Hoberman, film critic for "The Village Voice", is the author of a forthcoming history of Yiddish cinema and the co-author (with Jonathan Rosenbaum) of "Midnight Movies".

Vulgar Modernism (Culture And The Moving Image)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hoberman, J.

Social Sciences

Temple University Press

Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and influential underground movies ever released in America. J. Hoberman's monograph details the creative making--and legal unmaking--of this extraordinary film, a source of inspiration for artists as disparate as Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and John Waters. Described by its maker as "a comedy set in a haunted music studio," the story of Flaming Creatures is here augmented with a dossier of personal recollections, relevant documents and remarkable, previously unpublished on-set photographs by Norman Solomon. Expanding on notes originally prepared for the 1997 retrospective on Jack Smith at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the monograph includes further material on his unfinished features Normal Love and No President, as well as shorter film fragments.

On Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures" (and other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)

Hips Road/Tzadik

Vanishing Point Forever by Robert M. Rubin

Robert M. Rubin

Film Desk Books

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