Velvet Light Trap articles from September 1992

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 1992

Introduction.(introduces issue examining horror and exploitation films)
September 22, 1992... "THE HORROR FILM HAS CONSISTENTLY been one of the most popular and, at the same time, the most disreputable of Hollywood genres." Written in 1979, Robin Wood's introductory comments to his influential "An Introduction to the American Horror...

Modernity and subjectivity in The Terminator: the machine as monster in contemporary American culture.
September 22, 1992... IN HER ANALYSIS OF THE JAMES CAMERON/ Gale Anne Hurd film The Terminator (1984), Constance Penley clearly shows her admiration for the film, but this admiration presents her with problems. For Penley, mainstream commercial cinema is an...

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and the exploitation genre.
September 22, 1992... Only a heavy group like 20th Century-Fox had the power to bring this switched-on thing to the screen. But to bring it to mind-bending life, they first had to find its soul. Find a man who would mold, shape, and breath [sic] life...

Of hygiene and Hollywood: origins of the exploitation film.
September 22, 1992... IN 1915 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD HAILED Damaged Goods, a film about venereal disease, claiming it was "not a problem play catering to the morbid but a genuine tragedy. As such it surely is entitled to take its place in the film literature of...

The grayness of darkness: The Honeymoon Killers and its impact on psychokiller cinema.
September 22, 1992... No sense makes sense. --Charles Manson (1) Negativity can only be described in terms of its operations, and not by any means in terms of a graspable entity... Negativity does not so much indicate oppositions as...

A (sadistic) night at the Opera: notes on the Italian horror film.
September 22, 1992... "Take a good look. If you try to close your eyes, you'll tear them apart. So you'll just have to watch everything!" --Terror at the Opera (1987) IN THE ENTRY FOR MARIO BAVA'S ANTEFATTO (1971, also known under the titles...