Description
Grindhouse filmmaker Andy Milligan has been the subject of a revealing biography, and boasts a grassroots fan base, but his remarkable work has thus far received no serious critical overview. Working virtually alone, on infinitesimal budgets, often using a used 16mm newsreel camera, Milligan crafted some of the most unique melodramas of the 1960s and 1970s. Often mounted as period pieces, using costumes sewn by the filmmaker, Milligan's gritty, bizarre films come across as inimitable meldings of the avant-garde theater of Jean Genet, the experimental films of Jack Smith, and the random cinema verite of a lunatic with a home movie camera. Yet Milligan's films are anything but random, ruminating at length on profound sociocultural themes of the day, including the emptiness of the sexual revolution. Evident throughout all the films are two pet themes: a rabid deconstruction of the heterosexual paradigm, and a grotesque illumination of the family as breeder of dysfunction.
About the Author
Rob Craig has been writing about cult film for over twenty years. His work has been published in magazines such as Videoscope, Screem and Horror-Wood. He lives in Stevenson, Connecticut.
Book Information
ISBN 9780786465972
Author Rob Craig
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 565g
About the Author
Rob Craig has been writing about cult film for over twenty years. His work has been published in magazines such as Videoscope, Screem and Horror-Wood. He lives in Stevenson, Connecticut.
Book Information
ISBN 9780786465972
Author Rob Craig
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 565g
