Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens by Benson-Allott Caetlin;

Author:Benson-Allott, Caetlin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

SIMULATION AND STIMULATION: THE DOUBLED FEATURES OF SPECIAL EFFECTS

Grindhouse’s special effects unite its B-movie genre references with its most prominent “exploitable element,” its cinematicity.75 Thus, they and their various modes of production direct the spectator’s interest toward cinema’s role in twenty-first-century US movie culture, as opposed to nostalgia for a bygone era. This process began before Grindhouse premiered, with trailers that paradoxically enticed viewers with the promise of a unique—because obsolete—theatrical experience. The trailers begin by defining the grind house, a move that may serve some pedagogical value but also fixes its subject in a forgotten past, suggesting that such places need to be defined because they no longer exist. In one trailer an announcer proclaims, “It was called the grind house: theaters that played back-to-back movies featuring uncensored sexuality and hard-core thrills,” while in the second a decaying leader and damaged production logos introduce a dictionary-inspired title card:

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