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UK film industry
video nasties
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- ISBN 9781474451086
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The history of the ‘video nasties’ has been recounted many times and the films that caused so much offence have themselves been endlessly examined. However, the industry that gave rise to the category has received scant little attention. Earlier histories have tended to foreground issues of censorship, and as such, offer only glimpses of an under explored industrial history of British video. This book focuses explicitly on an industry that is still portrayed in heavily caricatured terms, that is frequently presented as immoral or corrupt, and that continues to be understood through the rhetoric of the tabloid press, as ‘merchants of menace’.
Dr Mark McKenna is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Industries at Staffordshire University. He is the author of Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties (EUP, 2020), Snuff (LUP, 2023), Big Wednesday: Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood (Routledge, 2024) and Levelling Up the Screen Industries: Film & Television Production as Regenerative Strategy in Places Left Behind (forthcoming, Routledge, 2025). He is the co-editor of Horror Franchise Cinema (Routledge, 2021), Stars and Franchises: Identity, Image and Intellectual Property (forthcoming, EUP, 2025), and the author of the report Silicon Stoke - Developing Film TV and Other Content Production in North Staffordshire, which explored the opportunities for stimulating the growth of the screen industries set against the backdrop of the UK government’s levelling-up agenda.
