Badfilm: Incompetence, Intention and Failure

This fascinating book examines badfilms; a subcategory of 'bad cinema' marked by incompetence, and typically exacerbated by...
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Author: Becky Bartlett
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Badfilm: Incompetence, Intention and Failure by Bartlett, Becky

Badfilm: Incompetence, Intention and Failure

CHF 231.96

Badfilm: Incompetence, Intention and Failure

CHF 231.96
Author: Becky Bartlett
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

    This fascinating book examines badfilms; a subcategory of 'bad cinema' marked by incompetence, and typically exacerbated by material poverty and restrictive production conditions. It develops a framework through which the formal characteristics of failure are identified and analysed, and identifies intentionality as central to how badfilms are appreciated and valued as cult texts. Drawing on debates about cult cinema and film form, the book includes a series of case studies of classic 'so bad they're good' films, like Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster and The Beast of Yucca Flats, investigating the impact of failures in post-production sound, recycled footage, performance and editing in American badfilms from the 1950s and 1960s. In doing so, it offers ways to consider how we identify and respond to failure, and how failure itself works.



    Author: Becky Bartlett
    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Published: 09/22/2021
    Pages: 200
    Binding Type: Hardcover
    Weight: 1.01lbs
    Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
    ISBN: 9781474450423

    About the Author

    University of St Andrews

    Becky Bartlett is Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews.


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