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Availability:In StockContributor:Calum Waddell (Editor)Series:Refocus: The American DirectorsPublish date:1/31/2026Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399536011ISBN-10:139953601XUPC:9781399536011Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Individual Director, FilmBook Topic:Direction & Production, History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCSFTXECSN

Dubbed "The Godfather of Gore," no other exploitation filmmaker made the most of scant budgets, short shooting schedules and amateur special effects like the legendary Herschell Gordon Lewis.

Making his mark with Blood Feast in 1963 and helming such notorious splatter-shockers as Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), The Gruesome Twosome (1967) and The Gore Gore Girls (1972), the director provoked generations of indebted genre stylists - from John Waters and Frank Henenlotter to Eli Roth and Damien Leone, with his hit Terrifier franchise.

This is the first academic study into the work of Lewis, covering not just his bloodstained celluloid, but also his background in sexploitation and infomercials. In doing so, this entry in the ReFocus series takes one of cinema's most influential low budget craftsmen out of the grindhouse and considers him as an Avant Garde auteur in his own right.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399536011ISBN-10:139953601XUPC:9781399536011Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Individual Director, FilmBook Topic:Direction & Production, History & CriticismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCSFTXECSN
Waddell, Calum: - Calum Waddell is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he also received his PhD. His previous work includes The Style of Sleaze, The American Exploitation Film (2018), Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (2021), South African Horror Cinema (2025), and the edited collection The Films of Wes Craven (2023). He has occasionally worked on producing bonus content and documentary work for Blu-ray labels and documented the "gory glory" days of grindhouse cinema with his feature-length nostalgia-trip 42nd Street Memories (2015).
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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