Background
Brottman, Mikita was born on October 30, 1966 in Sheffield, England. Came to the United States, 1998. Daughter of Michael David and Linda Hoy.
( The films discussed in this book have been labeled ciné...)
The films discussed in this book have been labeled cinéma vomitif because they induce a visceral response in their audience. They are an underground hybrid of slasher movies, exploitation films, and shock-u-mentaries. Taking a serious look at a taboo subject, Brottman argues that these scandalous films are of far more substance than has been previously assumed. Their consistent appeal to our repressed appetites, libidinal instincts, and fascination with flesh and death has much to tell us about the human condition. Films analyzed include the voyeuristic Freaks (1932), the traumatic psychodrama The Tingler (1959), the succés de scandale The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1976), the Italian shocker Cannibal Holocaust (1983), and two recent series of live death shock-u-mentaries, Death Scenes and Faces of Death (1989-1994). These movies, shunned from mainstream cinema because they are too offensive, obscene, marginal or bizarre, are considered here for the first time as an important part of the cinematic canon.
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Meat Is Murder! is the best-selling study of cannibals in both real life and cinema, with illustrated reports on cannibal killers such as Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo and Issei Sagawa, and reviews of cannibal movies such as Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox. ? This brand new, updated and expanded edition includes an extra chapter on Flesh-Eating Zombies in horror movies, plus a new, full-color photo section of extreme screen gore, and reports on the very latest cannibal movies including Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs. ??
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Violent death, murder, mutilation, eating and defecation, ritualism, bodily extremes: cannibalism combines these crucial themes to represent one of the most symbolically charged narratives in the human psychic repertoire. As a grotesque figure of power, threat, and atavistic appetites, the cannibal has played a formidable role in the tales told by members of all cultures - whether oral, written, or filmic - and embodies the ultimate extent of transgressive behaviour to which human beings can be driven. Meat is Murder! is a unique and explicit exploration of the stories that are told about cannibals, from classical myth to contemporary film and fiction, and features an in-depth illustrated critique of cannibalism as portrayed in the cinema, from mondo and explotation films to horror movies and arthouse classics. It also details the atrocious crimes of real life cannibals of the modern age, such as Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer and Andrei Chikatilo.
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Brottman offers up a study of movies so offensive, some are practically unwatchable. From the ever-popular Faces of Death movies to purported snuff films, from classic B-movies such as The Tingler, to more popular but no less controversial films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Brottman takes a wide-eyed look at movies most folks watch only through parted fingers. While most critics have been quick to dismiss such films as mere shock-fests (if they even bother to talk about them at all), Brottman argues that these movies tell us quite a bit about who we are as a society, what makes us anxious, and what taboos we truly believe cannot be crossed. Part anthropology, part psychoanalysis, Offensive Films vivisects these movies in order to figure out just what about them is so offensive, obscene, or bizarre. In the end, Brottman proves that these films, shunned from the cinematic canon, work on us in sophisticated ways we often choose to remain unaware of.
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Brottman, Mikita was born on October 30, 1966 in Sheffield, England. Came to the United States, 1998. Daughter of Michael David and Linda Hoy.
Bachelor with honors, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England, 1987. Master of Arts, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 1994.
Assistant professor, director graduate studies English Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazi Magusa, Northern Cyprus, 1992-1994. Assistant professor communications studies University E. London, 1994-1998. Assistant professor department comparative literature Indiana University, Bloomington, 1998-2000.
Assistant professor liberal arts Maryland Institute College Art, Baltimore, since 2001.
( Meat Is Murder! is the best-selling study of cannibals ...)
(Violent death, murder, mutilation, eating and defecation,...)
( The films discussed in this book have been labeled ciné...)
(Brottman offers up a study of movies so offensive, some a...)
(London published Cinema)
Married David Michael Brottman, July 17, 1995.