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Fleshpot"Fleshpot"
edited by Jack Stevenson
Critical Vision, 2000
    Exploitation cinema to most red-blooded bachelors is the best type of cinema ever. A nudie-cutie flick is better than an Oscar winner any day of the week. Fleshpot is a series of essays covering exploitation cinema from its early days to modern times. Although some of the essays are very esoteric and might is of interest only to students of film, Fleshpot provides an intelligent look (if you can believe that) at grindhouse cinema.
    Fleshpot starts off with a most interesting history lesson. It argues classic exploitation cinema is the kissing cousin to the advent of the foreign or art film in America. They worked on opposite ends of the social-economic spectrum to attain the same goals. They both wanted to bring more sex to the bring screen! Art films gave sex-on-the-screen the critical credibility it needed. Exploitation cinema had the populous appeal.
     The best chapter in this book, without a doubt, is the profile on Russ Meyer...the patron saint of dirty old men everywhere. It traces it career from his early nudie cuties, through his gothic melodrama period, to his adventures with a big studio picture, and beyond.
    Fleshpot might be a bit too academic for most, but it's the perfect book if you want a thorough and critical look at the films that filled the art housed and the grindhouses. 
 


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