Colin Gunckel: 2 books
Mexico on Main Street
Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles’s Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film culture that thrived in L.A. during the early days of Hollywood. Drawing from rare archives, including the city’s...
Sleaze Artists
Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2007
Bad Girls Go to Hell. Cannibal Holocaust. Eve and the Handyman. Examining film culture’s ongoing fascination with the low, bad, and sleazy faces of cinema, Sleaze Artists brings together film scholars with a shared interest in the questions posed by disreputable movies and suspect cinema. They explore...