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Portable GrindhouseJacques Boyreau

Portable Grindhouse

2009192 pages
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"Harken back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when the advent of rental videos astonished the movie-going consumer who could only feed his addiction by going to the theater or watching chopped up movies in between commercials on TV. Like vinyl, here is the revenge of another analog cast-off: the VHS is once again insinuating itself into American culture, and this book celebrates the anarchic design art of those early VHS boxes. Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box is a feast for exploitation cognoscenti, reprinting some of the most louche, decadent, minimo-pervo artwork to…

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  • Other · English · 2009
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 192 pages · 9781560979692
Commercial artVideo tapesMotion picturesExploitation films