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Post-Manson Cinema

Horror, Transgression, and Susan Sontag's America in the 1970s

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-43253-6
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungstermin: 27.10.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. Oktober 2026

In the early 1970s, with the utopian ambitions of the previous decade burnt to cinders, a giddy lust for chaos and annihilation seized American cinema and spawned a shocking cycle of bloody, nihilistic films that encompassed avant-garde experiments, documentaries, and low-budget horror alike. This phenomenon found an astute commentator and unlikely aficionado in Susan Sontag, the literary firebrand whose attunement to the dark, apocalyptic energies of the era position her as the ideal critic for helping us to understand the bloodlust, criminality, and evil that saturate these films. Traversing a vast constellation of cultural references and thinkers, from the My Lai massacre to Simone de Beauvoir, Post-Manson Cinema engages Sontag’s writing and thinking to better understand some of the most shocking and transgressive movies ever made.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520432536
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-43253-6
  • Verlag: University of California Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 27.10.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Seiten: 314
  • Format (B x H): 152 x 229 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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ContentsList of FiguresIntroduction: Historical Thresholds and the Taste for ApocalypseChapter 1. Manson, Sontag, and the MoviesChapter 2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and the Death Drive in Post-Manson CinemaChapter 3. Horror Shows and Invocations: Kenneth Anger in San Francisco and Armageddon at Altamont and GizaChapter 4. Crime Scenes and Negative Epiphanies: Graphic Violence, the Vietnam War, and the Drug War in Post-Manson CinemaChapter 5. The Children of Sade: Criminality, Diabolism, and Female TroubleConclusion—The Aesthetics of Outrage: Subcultural Taste and Implacable HistoriesAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex