It seems lame to start talking about book before even finished. But I'm tempted.
SADOMANIA : SINEMA DE SADE book. Creation Books put it out, years later than originally intended. Did I read distributors refused to carry it when it was supposed to be released due hardcore visuals? Well, now it's in modern Creation style, 100 copies hardcover, priced somewhere around 70$, which seems little exaggerated for c. 7" size 120 page b/w book with type size like meant for children. BUT, I under line the BUT: it seems very interesting. It attempts to cover sadean films. Not sadistic ones, even if they are often referred. You can find nice details, like about old New York film makers (connections to AVON and such). Dachau camp surviving jew, who made some of the vilest films in "mainstream"(roughie) adult film. Director who accused of killing his wife and commit bank robbery, along with directing decent cult xxx movies.
Just came out while ago, and I see my copy was #20/100. So probably there should be copies left!
Other good books? IF not mandatory, at least decent reading:
Cinema of Transgression!
Eros of Hell!
Killing For Culture!
Roskaelokuvia!
Porn Gold! (more of history of porn than individual titles)
American Camp (was it called that? Good especially for good piece on THUNDERCRACK!)
Simon Whitechapel's Kamp Kulture, about nazi exploitation movies which is a nice read tho i still think here in Italy we have one of the best source for this kind of cinema, and i mean Nocturno Cinema magazine (their dossiers and even books, which entirely focus on b-cinema and extreme cinema of every sort)
http://www.nocturno.it/default.aspx
then books like "Cinema Calibro 9" about gialli and police-movies, by Fabrizio Luperto
"Erosvastika" by the guys of Nocturno
"Joe D'Amato" by Gordiano Lupi and "Nocturno Dossier n.78 Joe D'Amato"
"Sex & Violence" by Roberto Curti and Tommaso La Selva (a huge book, from grindhouse/underground porno to Franco, Rollin, Lucifer Valentine, Fred Vogel...)
I will spare to you the enormous amount of books about Pasolini's work on Salò
It's a shame these books are not translated into english language
I'd surely like to read the long awaited and never published Jamie Gillis' book PURE FILTH (with a preface by Sotos), which really should be a fully sadean read about cinema, mostly focusing on the brilliant dialogues of Gillis' private movies- Feral House was supposed to release it but then nothing happened
Babylon Blue by David Flint, an other nice read about porn movies -much more entertaining than the lame The X Factory by Anthony Petkovich
i enjoyed
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great chats with Cronenberg, sounds like a nice guy....
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part cinema and part true crime
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only if you're into Argento
read some good things on Ringu-like J horror ...Harryhausen....godzilla, etc but that would be tooo offtopic? ;-)
great book for the size of it, great pics, THICK, lot of time went into it, but very $ :
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saw that sadomania book on creation, but it´s beyond my budget...I think they just put out a lasse braun book, did you get that mikko ? I think it is also a very limited edition
I love books on film, it is mainly what I read
some personal favourites include :
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That new Creation books Lasse Braun book was like 100$.
I have not got it yet. Not sure if it's really out, or still just pre-orders.
Creation Books price policy (especially with this latest batch of books) is far beyond good and evil...
Again, Lasse Braun recently released his autobiography "Senza Tregua" (400 pages fully loaded with every sort of sordid memory about the infamous loops Era, plus interesting and highly detailed stories about the most known starlettes of Porn...i guess you'd truly enjoy his vivid tale of the "Hooked" backstage, with the meathook, the flesh, the dirt and the flies surrounding a frightened porn-girl laying on a filthy table of a slaughterhouse), here in Italy. Someone SHOULD really publish this in english language
In American fanzine there was Lasse's article about his "dominant relationships", which included eating slices of cut-out of slave female's skin ("meat") and descriptions of few affairs with families who wanted him to use their girls & boys. It was amusing that Lasse would rather defend himself not being gay, when talking about the action with little boy. As if not being gay was the main thing what should have been defended, heh...
I don't know what is reality of book publishing now, except that it's cheaper and easier than ever. But if you want certain amount of $$ for publisher, author and perhaps even some 3rd parties, if you reduce print run from 1000 to 500.. and then from 500 to 100 or even 50, even if printing digitally is still fairly decent price even in minimal printrun, if hoping retail price to bring same "total income", I guess this is conclusion.
100x100$, 200x50$ or 500x20$.. ...10000$ to try to work with to covers costs, salaries and author royalties. I guess it is just easier to find 100 who pay 100$ than 500 who pay 20$ when you talk about obsessive content? But perhaps there should be some publisher to try something in larger run. Which doesn't always sell by pre-order, but be available for years like good encyclopedia/info books should?
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In American fanzine there was Lasse's article about his "dominant relationships", which included eating slices of cut-out of slave female's skin ("meat") and descriptions of few affairs with families who wanted him to use their girls & boys. It was amusing that Lasse would rather defend himself not being gay, when talking about the action with little boy. As if not being gay was the main thing what should have been defended, heh...
I don't know what is reality of book publishing now, except that it's cheaper and easier than ever. But if you want certain amount of $$ for publisher, author and perhaps even some 3rd parties, if you reduce print run from 1000 to 500.. and then from 500 to 100 or even 50, even if printing digitally is still fairly decent price even in minimal printrun, if hoping retail price to bring same "total income", I guess this is conclusion.
100x100$, 200x50$ or 500x20$.. ...10000$ to try to work with to covers costs, salaries and author royalties. I guess it is just easier to find 100 who pay 100$ than 500 who pay 20$ when you talk about obsessive content? But perhaps there should be some publisher to try something in larger run. Which doesn't always sell by pre-order, but be available for years like good encyclopedia/info books should?
some interesting accounts of hard bdsm back in the seventies mostly performed in Amsterdam porn clubs, strange and unusual relationships of free love, castings which suspiciously look like abusive attempts to fuck every single girl Mr Braun had to face (he quietly admits he almost fucked evry girl he used to cast for his flicks), Nazism and Hitler himself (when Braun was a baby, he was living there in the middle of the Third Reich...reading these pages, especially when he tells us how he had the chance to pull and to play with Hitler's moustache, you begin to think the guy has a serious thing for bragging). He had sex with boys (and yes, families are involved and offer their precious darlings) -but he points out that these boys looked like girls and he understood what was really going on when it was too late (!) - meaning that he found a cock where he expected a cunt, but, and this is really hilarious, he decided to fuck these boys in the ass anyway...
I've met the man a lot of times and well...he's a hippie. Old school/old fashioned hippie who truly believes in the power of love, in the freedom thru sex and in other equally asinine bullshits- so you basically ask him about the nice proclivities which fill his past movies (especially the loops) expecting this dark mind to be unleashed and you end listening to moronic W. Reich's theories and sexual revolution. I think i'ìm the only one who wrote a negative review when i had to speak of the book - not for the book in itself, which is highly recommended, but because i cant stand people who need desperately to hide their pleasures behind a curtain of intellectual statements and assertions
some of my standard film reference books i use again and again include:
I COLORI DEL BUIO - IL CINEMA THRILLING ITALIANO DAL 1930 AL 1979 (Luca Rea)
LA COMMEDIA EROTICA ITALIANA - VENT'ANNI DI CINEMA SEXY "MADE IN ITALY" (Michele Giordano)
DELIRIUM - A GUIDE TO ITALIAN EXPLOITATION CINEMA 1975-1979
99 DONNE - STELLE A STELLINE DEL CINEMA ITALIANO (Manlio Gomarasca and Davide Pulici)
JESS FRANCO CHRONICLES (Andreas Bethmann)
FORGOTTEN HORRORS (George F. Turner and Michael H. Price)
THE MEXICAN MASKED WRESTLER AND MONSTER FILMOGRAPHY (Robert Michael Cotter)
...and various others depending on what genre i'm obsessing over, but nothing for reference compares to the magazines:
EUROPEAN TRASH CINEMA, THE CHEESEPLANT, NOCTURNO, AMARCORD, GIALLO PAGES, etc.
mikko,
this is also a good book of SADEAN cinema and the arts:
MARQUIS DE SADE: ANTHOLOGIE ILLUSTREE (Edited by Stefano Piselli, Roberto Guidotti, Federico de Zigno, Riccardo Morrocchi)
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many of you probably already have some of the volumes, but if not; GLITTERING IMAGES puts out some of the most definitive hard and softcovers on many cinema genres, my favorites being LA DOLCE PAURA, HORROR ALL'ITALIANA: 1957-1979, and the WESTERN ALL'ITALIANA books.
www.glitteringimages.it
See No Evil comes highly recommended.
Sweet & Savage by Mark Goodall was good, focusing on italian mondo movies (a nice complement to Killing For Culture).
Been interested in picking up All The Colors Of The Dark for a while now, but the pricetag... Well, is it worth it? Not a big Bava-fan, but still really interested in this one!
Probably the best Fulci biography
http://www.unmondoaparte.it/luciofulci.html
400 pages and big format, a lot of anecdotes and informations. Not so rich as images unfortunately
NIGHTMARE USA by Stephen Thrower
I wish I'd picke dup that German book on Cannibal films...
Also the RE/Search book, INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILMS.
Plus MONDO MACABRO & the othe rbook Pete Tombs did.
CUT:THE UNSEEN CINEMA Baxter Phillips
Bellezas del Cine Mexicano Rogelio Agrasanchez Jr. more of a photo book but still somewhat informative on Mexican cinema of the 30s-60s.
Io Emanuelle not an actual book but a great Laura Gemser resource.
ANTICRISTO Steve Fentone Ultimate guide on nun sleaze.
Overlook Film Encyclopedia "Horror" edited by Phil Hardy very detailed reference book on horror film from 1896 to 1992...used this a lot when ordering tapes from trade lists way back when.
I'd love to own ANTICRISTO! FAB should reissue that as an affordable pb.
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Books on TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE & LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (FAB Press) are a couple faves.
I have a book from Glittering Images about Japanese Pink films that's pretty cool, image-wise. I think that's the name of the publisher. I miss Xploited Cinema; they had a great selection of books. Just looked through DiabolikDVD & their bk selection is slim.
My favorite type of movies are spaghettiwesterns, and there´s quite a few books about it but i found them a bit dull to read i´m affraid, but those from Glittering Images, "Western all`italiana vol 1-3" are very nice with lots of pictures of old posters and lobby cards in colour. Also the long running magazine of same name is really nice with interviews with old cowboy heroes and stuff like that. Another favorite is the book "spaghetti western - the good the bad and the ugly" by Thomas Weisser as his small reviews are so confused. If you watch a western and after that look it up in this book it´s seems like Weisser have seen a different film, lots of fun.
Can also recommend three books about my favorite exploitation/horror directors/actors, all quite special guys:
Paul Naschy - Momoirs of a Wolfman
The ghastly one - the sex-gore netherworld of filmmaker Andy Milligan
Obsession - the films of Jess Franco (hard to find now, but Stephen Thrower is working on a new Franco book, i´m sure it will be magnificent)
And at last add to the Lucha Libre recommendation earlier, "Mondo Lucha a go-go", not only about the films but on the whole spectacle, much more entertaining than, the also good, "The Mexican Masked Wrestler filmography".
I have a Japanese paperback on Pink Violent films that's pretty awesome. Hundreds of photos & images of posters. I have no idea what the title is.
The 2 Shock Xpress books are pretty good. I believe there's a 3rd? I think I still have issues of the magazine (I have TONS of exploitation/horror zines).
Bill Landis' SLEAZOID EXPRESS book is good too (I sold the magazines but have a bound book of all the early issues).
Umberto Lenzi likes to write hardboiled novels mostly focused on italian cinema
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Spaghetti Nightmares Italian Fantasy-Horrors As Seen Through The Eyes Of Their Protagonists Luca M. Palmerini & Gaetano Mistretta
Flickers - An Illustrated Celebration Of 100 Years Of Cinema Gilbert Adair
An Illustrated History Of Horror And Science Fiction Films - The Classic Era, 1895-1967 Carlos Clarens
The Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol I & II John McCarty
SHOCK! HORROR! Astounding Artwork from the Video Nasty Era Francis Brewster,Harvey Fenton & Marc Morris
this is excellent:
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Posted that on the first page, but yeah - definitely a must-have for Pink Eiga fanatics, although I'd hoped for more extensive coverage on Yasuharu Hasebe and Violent Pink films in general.
yeah sorry for double posting I have forgotten, but since I was reading it last night I have thought to share ;)
Just received news from Bloodbuster
http://www.bloodbuster.com/index.php?idlingua=1&pageid=dettagli2&idprodotto=7083
usually Bizarre sinema series books are not paperback. Maybe bitewerks talk about Eros in Hell? http://www.amazon.com/Eros-Hell-Japanese-Creation-Collection/dp/1871592933
I have Eros in Hell & the other book pictured but the Japanese book is from Japan, all text is in Japanese. I came across it on the DVD Maniacs forum then had someone in Japan track it down for me 4 or so years ago. I'll see if I can figure out how to post a pic of it...
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Creation Books price policy (especially with this latest batch of books) is far beyond good and evil...
Again, Lasse Braun recently released his autobiography "Senza Tregua" (400 pages fully loaded with every sort of sordid memory about the infamous loops Era, plus interesting and highly detailed stories about the most known starlettes of Porn...i guess you'd truly enjoy his vivid tale of the "Hooked" backstage, with the meathook, the flesh, the dirt and the flies surrounding a frightened porn-girl laying on a filthy table of a slaughterhouse), here in Italy. Someone SHOULD really publish this in english language
Today LB creation books release arrived in mail. Hardcover, B5 size. 69 copies limited edition. All print, all full color. What the book consists, is pretty much filmography. Scans of loop boxes, sample images, and the back cover text reprinted, with little additional info (where published and when). reprint of 48 pages long Sensations film booklet. There is not much text in this book. It is most of all just kind of coffeetable art book. If you happen to have plenty of his magazines/loops etc, or read his interviews/biopgraphies, this book might not be absolutely essential. For collectors and fanatics of vintage porn, perhaps it is essential.
New book about swedish "sensationsfilms" coming in April. Some of you might remember the authors swedish-written book Svensk Sensationsfilm, but this should be completely re-worked with an addition of about 50 more films etc.
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Coming April 2011: 'Swedish Sensationsfilms' Book Reveals
Naked Glory of Pioneering Exploitation Cinema
Available April 1 in bookstores everywhere, Bazillion Points Books presents SWEDISH SENSATIONSFILMS: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema (ISBN 978-09796163-6-5 US$19.95), a lavish and fiery 328pp retrospective of over 200 banned and cut films produced during the golden age of Swedish sin. "I was born into a rising whirlwind of madness," says author Daniel Ekeroth. "As the '70s came along, all limits were forgotten. Sweden was flooded with sexually explicit and violent films of every kind, and all morals were gone."
Sweden's sexy reputation was sealed the moment Ulla Jacobsson bared her breasts for One Summer of Happiness in 1951, crushing the Hays Code and igniting a mad race to make sensationsfilms! Produced in the backyard of the Swedish film industry, these sexually daring films form a canon of countless movies dealing with shocking or taboo subjects: street punks, sadistic mobsters, space aliens, unruly housewives, ruthless drug pushers, bloodthirsty ninjas, teen temptresses, lingonberry cowboys, bearded perverts, and drunken vikings.
Working far from the confines of Hollywood, the exploits of young director Ingmar Bergman, actress Christina Lindberg, ultra-villain Heinz Hopf, free-spirited Stellan Skarsgård, and American expats like Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, and Troy Donahue have spawned a legacy that inspired Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.
With dark humor and an eye for cultural quirks that will leave readers wondering whether these films are even real, Ekeroth paints the portrait of a national cinema run amok. Special sections include two historical overviews, a recollection by starlet Christina Lindberg, a list of essential sensationsfilms, a rogues gallery of directors and cast, and a hilarious guide to curious Swedish customs.
Why does John Waters cite Ingmar Bergman as a role model? What are raggare, and why do they hate punk rockers? Can taking the name "Marquis de Sade" really change a bachelor's luck with women instantly? Why won't France or Germany make films with Sweden any more? Ekeroth reveals all... in Swedish Sensationsfilms.
For more information, page samples, and to view film trailers, visit this location: http://www.sensationsfilm.com
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SEX, DEATH, SWASTIKAS: NAZI EXPLOITATION SSINEMA
http://www.creationbooks.com/creation-titles/SEXDEATHSWASTIKAS.html
Finally got mine in the mail a few weeks ago. Great book; only 50 hardcovers made and 100 softcovers(!).
Not quite as good as the heavily illustrated color and b/w Italian Nocturno book/magazine SPECIALE EROSSVASTIKA: IL NAZI ALL'ITALIANA, but SEX, DEATH, SWASTIKAS is in english and is still available. I only got #22/100 of the softcover. It's hard to believe so few people are dedicated to this sub-genre(?!).
I think it might be also lack of visibility. I was told about this book by friend who recommended it, not yet received it.
And I think I have already signed up for Creation mailinglist, but not sure since I never got any news.
If promotion only happens via website, sold direct to customers, I think eventually it creates as low profile as in... lets say "noise". Few enthusiasts know, rest don't have a clue of existence of some publication. I have the feeling, that years ago, if you followed noise/industrial, you pretty much found out about Feral House, Creation, Headpress, perhaps even Loompanics. Especially if you followed mailorder catalogues like Artware. Now, I see people who used to buy the stuff, being utterly clueless that Sotos put out like 5 new books and bunch of other interesting titles came out on mentioned publishers. But, in other hand, one can wonder what else to do? I'm sure for example Creation isn't pricey or low profile out of spite. Just the best way to keep it going for them.
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SEX, DEATH, SWASTIKAS: NAZI EXPLOITATION SSINEMA
http://www.creationbooks.com/creation-titles/SEXDEATHSWASTIKAS.html
Finally got mine in the mail a few weeks ago. Great book; only 50 hardcovers made and 100 softcovers(!).
Not quite as good as the heavily illustrated color and b/w Italian Nocturno book/magazine SPECIALE EROSSVASTIKA: IL NAZI ALL'ITALIANA, but SEX, DEATH, SWASTIKAS is in english and is still available. I only got #22/100 of the softcover. It's hard to believe so few people are dedicated to this sub-genre(?!).
Thanks for the tip! Just ordered a copy. I had not heard of this book before. The best sub-genre along with nunsploitation.
Some years ago i would have been all over a book like that Nazisploitation one, but have lost interest in the genre, still a bit tempting though... Does it cover the Eurociné titles like SPECIALTRAIN FOR HITLER, NATHALIE RESCUED FROM HELL and maybe even COMMANDO MENGELE?? What doesi it say about the obscure LIEBES LAGER?
Also, are there anything from producers/directors or actors trying to justify the genre? I find the most interesting thing about the nazisplotation films being that they ever got made... from what i understand the Italian films where no big hits either, except for NIGHT PORTER. What audience were they aiming at? Did the films screen in porno-theatres (for instance LOVE CAMP 27 with hardcore-scenes) and if so what did that audience think of them....?
Daniel´s book about swedish trash is sure to be a very nice read! I guess only let down for non-swedes will be that so many of the covered films will be hard to find with subtitles, but for many of them reading a little about the film is quite enough...
QuoteDoes it cover the Eurociné titles like SPECIALTRAIN FOR HITLER, NATHALIE RESCUED FROM HELL and maybe even COMMANDO MENGELE?? What does it say about the obscure LIEBES LAGER?
hilarious that you ask about the eurocine titles... that's the first thing i asked rodger stella when he gave me the heads up that the book was available. my irrational obsession for pamela stanford and monica swinn (shamless plug: watch for THE PAMELA, THE MONICA 7" coming soon) has me collecting all i can with either actress. it does in fact include the eurocine titles, that after much fetishizing i champion over all else SS film genre related, but the author thinks their pretty bland. the best coverage i've seen of the Eurocine films (even though some are simply franco-'related') is in ETC, 99 DONNE, JESS FRANCO CHRONICLES, SPECIALE EROSSVASTIKA: IL NAZI ALL'ITALIANA and the Stanford and Swinn articles in SEX STARS SYSTEM. I haven't come across Bianchi's MENGELE yet, but LOVE CAMP is in there. He covers a few of the SS inspired porn loops from the 70s and D'Amatos XXX 90s films, and even news reel collections. Many historical anecdotes and interesting stories in there as well; from Bogarde's experiences on the set of THE NIGHT PORTER to the 'real-life Ilsa' Irma Grese - "The Bitch of Belsen".
Haha, yes, the Eurociné stuff sure has it´s twisted charm! COMMANDO MENGELE isn´t much of a nazi film really, but the image of Howard Vernon/Hitler is cool., specially considering that Vernon apparently was some sort of collaborator during the ocupation of France (hosted a radio-show or something like that i believe it was).
Monica Swinn is quite a woman, she sets the men in their place for sure! Can´t go wrong with Pamela S. either.
Damn, i get my old feelings back up, maybe should grab that book after all... Anecdotes sounds like fun and I´d like to read something about LIBES LAGER, to me maybe the most un-tasteful of them all (but it is a close call with the authentic concentration camp footage in WOMENS CAMP 119 and the hardcore rapes of NAZI LOVE CAMP 27), moronic slapstick, fall-on-the-arse, comedy in concentration camp... well...
Thanks to those discussing the above mentioned book. Didn't know about it but now it's happily ordered. Having little exposure to the genre I hope this will help point me in the right direction.
Went to a sexploitation movie poster exhibition yesterday and met Jimmy Pantera, co-author of two great books Orgasmo Vol. 1 & 2. The books are about old sexploitation movie posters and they were recently(?) published by Serious Publishing (http://www.serious-publishing.fr/en/index.php (http://www.serious-publishing.fr/en/index.php)). Soft cover books with all text (not that much text in these, they really concentrate on the posters themselves) in both French and English, and plenty of great pictures of movie posters, movie stills and lobby cards.
Each book has a few themes. Vol 1 has bad girls, film noir, for nudists only, mondo and sexy horror. Vol 2 has jungle goddess, tortured, trans-genre, hygiene pictures and big busty babes.
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MIDNIGHT MAVERICKS by Gene Gregorits should be mentioned here. It's mostly reprints from Sex & Guts magazine, which he did with Lydia Lunch for awhile. There's also a Sex & Guts book.
His HATCHET JOB anthology has interviews with Jim Van Beeber, Abel Ferrara, Lech Kowalski, and probably some others. It's 800 pages, so I still have a lot to go through.
Read this a while a go. Highly recommended.
Paul Schrader's "Transcendental style in film".
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