10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIDEO NASTY»
Discover the use of
video nasty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
video nasty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Shock! Horror!: Astounding Artwork From The
Video Nasty Era
Marc Morris was one of the few to rescue these covers from obscurity, and this book delves deep into his unrivalled collection.
Francis Brewster, Harvey Fenton, Marc Morris, 2005
Wingrove and Morris here reproduce 450 pre-certificate video covers in all their lurid glory. An invaluable visual record of a time the mainstream video industry would prefer to forget.
Nigel Wingrove, Marc Morris, 2009
3
Seduction of the Gullible: The Truth Behind the
Video Nasty ...
John Martin runs down the whys and wherefores of the entire scandal, and categorises the nasties, from Absurd! to Zombie Creeping Flesh.
4
Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear
... Romeo, and other filmmakers who pioneered the "splatter film" (one must think
of the witches pulling a dismembered hand out of a bundle of sticks and
snapping off. 153 A Nasty Situation: Social Panics, Transnationalism, and the
Video Nasty.
Interpreting the phenomenon Given the video phenomenon, how should we
interpret it? Four positions have emerged within the debate: • There is no 'video
nasty' problem: it is only perceived as such because of media distortion and a
priori ...
6
Moving Images: Understanding Children's Emotional Responses ...
it screams, 'burn your video nasty.' The report below describes how 'a video chain
boss yesterday torched his entire £10,000 stock of tapes linked to the Jamie
Bulger murder'. Launching its 'nationwide campaign to get all other copies of ...
17 What such letters seem to convey, then, is the extent to which the currency of
the shared pre-VRA experience of veteran video nasty collectors has been
consolidated throughout the course of the 1990s, and how the "ardent" veteran
video ...
"Video nasty" was a colloquial term coined in the United Kingdom by 1982 which originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by the press, commentators such as Mary ...
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Film and
Video Censorship in Modern Britain
he video nasty affair began in 1981 with complaints to the Advertising Standards
Authority (ASA) and the British Videogram Association (BVA, the video
distributors' trade body) and members of the public about the gruesome nature of
the ...
10
Urban Crime Prevention, Surveillance, and Restorative ...
Articles in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times in late May stressed the extreme
violence of such films, including sadism, mutilation, and cannibalism. The precise
origins of the term video nasty are unclear, but it was diffused by the Sunday
Times.
Paul Knepper, Jonathan Doak, Joanna Shapland, 2009
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIDEO NASTY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
video nasty is used in the context of the following news items.
Watch - Police probe video nasty where cyclist is pushed into a ditch
Police in Derry have confirmed they are investigating an incident in which a cyclist was pushed from his bike into a ditch as he cycled along the Ballyarnett Road. «Derry Journal, Jul 15»
Watch The Prodigy's new video Nasty
Essex techno-punks The Prodigy are back with a new single, album and a striking new video. The band have just released details of the 14-track long-player ... «Essex Chronicle, Jan 15»
Latest Isis video nasty marks a change of tack
The video which announces the killing of his former cellmate, Peter Abdul Rahman Kassig, is also very different from its predecessors. The films showing the last ... «New Zealand Herald, Nov 14»
Wedding video nasty: cameraman hits back
Mr Aurelius then sent video files to the couple when they requested the full, unedited footage nine months after it was filmed at a central London venue. He had ... «Jewish Chronicle, Oct 13»
