Within the discipline of film studies, canonical figures like Orson Welles, Christian Metz, and John Ford have long since made room for the ruder names of Marilyn Chambers, Radley Metzger, and Seymour Butts. As the field's borders have expanded in the past decade, redefined by a shift from relatively abstract philosophizing to more concrete cultural history, formerly fringe genres such as pornography, horror, exploitation, and various other psychotronic delicacies have become increasingly frequent subjects of investigation, bolstered by a new generation of graduate students and professors raised on late-night television... More >>>