Land of a Thousand Balconies: Discoveries and Confessions of a B-movie Archaeologist

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Headpress, 2003 - 189 pages
Most books about B-movies are straight-forward genre guides, biographies or encyclopaedias. Not this one. In addition to chapters on film showmen, gimmicks and cult films, Land of a Thousand Balconies documents those incidents and unusual film happenings which author Jack Stevenson has -- over the past fifteen years -- been privy to in his various capacities as show organiser, tour arranger, festival jury member and projectionist-for-hire. Land of a Thousand Balconies also focuses on movie theatres and renegade exhibition spaces, lamenting on the disappearing 'sense of place' that is such an integral part of the movie-going experience. Here the reader is invited to tour a diversity of venues -- from the notorious old grindhouses of San Francisco, the home-made store-front cinemas of Seattle and NY, through to the underground film clubs of Europe. Book jacket.
 

Table des matières

Introduction
5
A Million Frightened Teenagers
21
The Jukebox That Ate The Cocktail Lounge
31
A Secret History of Cult Movies
47
The Good The Bad and The Strange
58
Hail The Conquering Thief
67
The Cult Of Technicolor
73
The Nyback Chronicles in Two Parts
85
Trash Aint Garbage
125
Underground FilmMaker Jon Moritsugu
131
This
135
Boston in Two Parts
137
Fear Loathing Good Hash Dirty Laundry In Europe
149
From Russia With Confusion
155
Of Celluloid and Slime
164
Kosmorama Nights
170

Europe In The Raw
95
I An Arthouse
103
The Portable DriveInMovie Electric Acid Test
111
Confessions of a Film Collector
177
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