Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, Vol. 1 (v. 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (938 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560979690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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…The introductory essay is a revelatory piece on the importance of VHS and the role it played in cinematic history.” (object Object)“It’s the perfect book for anyone who understands the art of the guilty pleasure and the joy in a terrifically bad movie, as well as those who took great joy in the hunt for home video entertainment. A book as lovingly edited as this could only have been put together by someone whose appreciation for these objects is matched by a real love of cinema.” (object Object)“Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art Of The VHS Box i
A feast for exploitation cognoscenti, Portable Grindhouse is a portable grindhouse. It's like having your very own drive-in at home! Portable Grindhouse reprints some of the most louche, decadent, minimo-pervo artwork to ever grace a VHS box, featuring such movies as From Beyond, Cop Killers, and Cocaine Wars. Throughout, editor and cultural historian Jacques Boyreau succinctly narrates the household-piercing story of VHS: "VHS box-art 'became' the iconic equivalent of the movie." Portable Grindhouse is published in a VHS "format," slyly packaged inside a facsimile VHS box, and contains almost a hundred reproductions of VHS art with commentary.. Readers will be agog at the plethora of supertrash movie titles, and then move on to rediscover the anarchic box designs
Jacques Boyreau is a writer, curator, and trash cinema auteur living in Portland, OR.
VHS Tape Covers Up The Wazoo For all those into VHS, the covers featured are bound to pop your eyes open. There are diverse and multiple covers galore. Horror, action, comedy, drama, Death Wish, My Bloody Valentine, The Legend of Hell House. Even Barbie is featured in this book. Well worth the buy.. Slapped together BronzeHorse A VERY dissapointing book. Although the packaging is cool, the book itself is a MAJOR letdown. Anyone expecting rare titles and wild artwork will be very poorly served by this book. For example, when I think "grindhouse" or "lost art of the VHS," I'm not exactly thinking Greatest Sports Legends starring Johnny Bench, Bowhunting Whitetails: Just For Fun!, or Network (???). Granted there are a FEW good titles here, Nightmare Circus (ANYTHING from Regal seems to have fun artwork), Night of . Rare disappointment from Fantagraphics. More like a DIY art project. Steve Ramm I have to agree with Bronze Horse (reviewer) on this. Fantagraphics is one of my favorite Graphic Arts publishers and the packaging here is great! But the inside comes off like a "poor man's Taschen" book with little input from the author as to why these (mostly) B movies are fun.A lot of the VHS boxes would appear in the "cult" or "late night" or "horror" section of your local Video store. My store still has many of these VHS tapes because they never made it to DVD (and SOMEONE must be