From Exhibition to Genre: The Case of Grind-House Films

作者: David Church

DOI: 10.1353/CJ.2011.0053

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摘要: Boasting cheap tickets and lurid films, grind houses complicated Hollywood’s hold on the distribution chain during studio era. To manage this economic competition, were increasingly coded as “bad objects” through industrial critical discourse, leading to “genrification” of so-called grind-house films post-studio