Perverse titillation: A history of European exploitation films, 1960--1980.

摘要

European Exploitation or 'Eurocult' films have left an indelible impact on popular culture around the world. Focusing on subject matter that many of the major film studios shied away from, Eurocult films helped a generation of worldwide audiences deal with the rapidly changing social and political landscape that occurred in the '60s and '70s. The effects of that these films have has also reached out to later generation with modern filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro achieving success by paying homage to the genre.;With the advent of DVD, Eurocult is enjoying a renaissance, with films long unseen now available in unedited, original versions, released and sold in special editions that are both popular and profitable. Directors and other filmmakers, long unappreciated, have only now begun to receive respect for their daring creations. Looking at the films of Italy, Spain and France from 1960 to 1980 that dealt with sexuality, violence and monsters both real and imagined, we see the changing social and political morays that chronicled a particular time in world history as well as seeing one of the first examples of a cross-cultural, integrated communication process that has become commonplace in today's international media saturated world.