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Fervid Filmmaking: 66 Cult Pictures of Vision, Verve and No Self-Restraint
Author(s): Mike Watt (Author)
- Publisher: McFarland & Co
- Publication Date: 21 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0786470666
- ISBN-13: 9780786470662
Book Description
For film professionals and buffs, the term “”Kitchen Sink movies”” refers to those films that take severe right-angle turns at unexpected moments, where filmmakers borrow from across the artistic spectrum to create a wild, disorienting ride. Throwing marketing reports and box-office projections to the wind, they conjure a whirl of ideas, of images, of themes or plots, that inexplicably come together despite conventional reason. Almost always cult films, these movies rarely succeed in their first run. Indeed, some of the very best remain unknown to mainstream audiences. This volume provides in-depth examinations of 60 of these cultural oddities, from such disparate filmsLa morte en direct, The Final Programme, and Head to lesser-known independents like The Prodigy, Land of College Prophets, and Scrapbook. By putting these unusual films into cultural context, this work promotes an under-appreciated but fascinating facet of moviemaking.
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About the Author
Mike Watt, an author, screenwriter and journalist, has written for such genre magazines as Fangoria, Film Threat, The Dark Side, the late Frederick Clarke’s Cinefantastique, and Femme Fatales. Through the production company, Happy Cloud Pictures, he has written and produced or directed the award-winning feature film The Resurrection Game, as well as Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut, A Feast of Flesh, Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation and the upcoming 2012 feature Razor Days.
