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VHS: Video Cover Art

Author : Thomas Hodge

Publisher : Schiffer Publishing

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 21,9 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Commercial art

ISBN : 9780764348679

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Video cover art is a unique and largely lost artform representing a period of unabashed creativity during the video rental boom of the 1980s to early 1990s. The art explodes with a succulent, indulgent blend of design, illustration, typography, and hilarious copywriting. Written and curated by Tom "The Dude Designs" Hodge, poster artist extraordinaire and VHS obsessive, with a foreword by Mondo's Justin Ishmael, this collection contains over 240 full-scale, complete video sleeves in the genres of action, comedy, horror, kids, sci-fi, and thriller films. It's a world of mustached, muscled men, buxom beauties, big explosions, phallic guns, and nightmare-inducing monsters. From the sublime to the ridiculous, some are incredible works of art, some are insane, and some capture the tone of the films better than the films themselves. All are amazing and inspiring works of art that captivate the imagination. It's like stepping back in time into your local video store!



VHS

Author : Joe Pickett

Publisher : Running Press Adult

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 24,78 MB

Release : 2011-10-11

Category : Humor

ISBN : 0762444800

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The decade of 1988-1998 was the Golden Age of VHS, a time when anybody with a pulse, a camcorder, and a few bucks could market a video. Comedy writers Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have spent the last 20 years collecting the best odd and unintentionally hilarious videotapes ever produced. Since 2004, they've resurrected them for sold-out audiences across the country as part of their touring show, the Found Footage Festival. Now, for the very first time, they've collected the greatest VHS covers into one handsome compendium -- along with their priceless snarky commentary throughout.



Portable Grindhouse

Author : Jacques Boyreau

Publisher : Fantagraphics Books

Page : 201 pages

File Size : 47,9 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 1560979690

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A tribute to the design art of early VHS movie box covers features reproductions of some of the form's most decadent, minimalist, and depraved examples, in a visual tour that is complemented by a history of the VHS format. Original.



Videotapes from Hell

Author : Stephen Jones

Publisher : Applause Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 22,38 MB

Release : 2024-10

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9781493077953

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An illustrated history of VHS cover art in all its gory glory



Jonathan Coe

Author : Philip Tew

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 36,51 MB

Release : 2018-03-22

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1350027685

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In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of his major novels, including his most recent book Number 11, Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire includes chapters by leading and emerging scholars of contemporary British writing. The book features a preface by Coe himself and covers the ways in which his work grapples with such themes as class politics, popular music, sex, gender and the media.



Tales of the Video Nasty

Author : Nathan Toulane

Publisher : Velvet

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 24,41 MB

Release : 2023-10-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN :

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A carefree memoir of growing up during the golden age of VHS and video rental stores in the 1980s. This humorous nostalgia trip rewinds to an era of chunky plastic tapes, horror movie sleepovers, and rewinding woes. Relive the magic of discovering cinema through the blurry analogue footage, cheesy effects, and garish cover art of the VHS generation. A warm remembrance of all that was sublime and ridiculous about watching movies on tape during the heyday of the video rental store. From dodgy splatter films to DIY camcorder creations, this book celebrates a bygone media age and the role VHS played in shaping many a budding filmmaker. Sit back and soak in the fuzzy signals of yesteryear for a heartfelt trip back to the fascinating world of VHS.





Black Milk

Author : Marcus Wood

Publisher : OUP Oxford

Page : 552 pages

File Size : 34,49 MB

Release : 2013-05-09

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0199274576

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Black Milk is the first in-depth analysis of the visual arts that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Exploring prints, photographs, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and ephemera, it will change everything we knew, or thought we knew, about the visual archive of Atlantic slavery.



New Blood

Author : Eddie Falvey

Publisher : University of Wales Press

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 28,8 MB

Release : 2021-01-15

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1786836351

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The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the advancement of subgenres that reflect new and evolving fears. New Blood builds upon preceding horror scholarship to offer a series of critical perspectives on the genre since the year 2000, presenting a collection of case studies on topics as diverse as the emergence of new critical categories (such as the contentiously named ‘prestige horror’), new subgenres (including ‘digital folk horror’ and ‘desktop horror’) and horror on-demand (‘Netflix horror’), and including analyses of key films such as The Witch and Raw and TV shows like Stranger Things and Channel Zero. Never losing sight of the horror genre’s ongoing political economy, New Blood is an exciting contribution to film and horror scholarship that will prove to be an essential addition to the shelves of researchers, students and fans alike.



Unnerved

Author : Maud Page

Publisher :

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 11,7 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Art

ISBN :

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The Queensland Art Gallery presents UNNERVED: THE NEW ZEALAND PROJECT, the second in a series of country-specific exhibition projects focusing on its contemporary collections. Since the 1990s, the Gallery's holdings of contemporary work from New Zealand have grown rapidly, partly through increased awareness and interest in the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibitions. UNNERVED, and its accompanying publication, explores a particularly rich dark vein that recurs in New Zealand contemporary art and cinema. Psychological or physical unease pervades many works in the exhibition, with humour, parody and poetic subtlety among the strategies used by artists across generations and genres. Major sculptures by Michael Parekowhai, installations by Lisa Reihana and Michael Stevenson and photographic series by Yvonne Todd, Anne Noble and Greg Semu feature alongside video art by Sriwhana Spong and Nathan Pohio. The exhibition is accompanied by the film program, New Zealand Noir.