Exploring Film through Bad Cinema

Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.

Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, aesthetics, and criticism, this broad theoretical engagement illustrates the ways in which the registers of value that we apply to film are inseparable from the wider discourses of taste that shape our cu...