A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0721Z212V |
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| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Thousand Cuts is a candid exploration of one of America's strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive group of film-mad collectors who made movies and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays. Victims included Planet of the Apes star Roddy McDowall, who was arrested in 1974 for film collecting and forced to name names of fellow collectors, including Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé. Authors Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph examine the FBI's and Justice Department's campaign to harass, intimidate, and arrest film dealers and collectors in the early 1970s. Many of those persecuted were gay men. A Thousand Cuts explores the obsessions of the colorful individuals who created their own screening rooms, spent vast sums, negotiated underground networks, and even risked legal jeopardy to pursue their passion for real, physical film. The book includes the stories of film historian/critic Leonard Maltin, TCM host Robert
A Vanished World A Thousand Cuts is a painful book to read. It’s painful to me because I remember the vanished world of 16mm film collectors who used to populate the cinema landscape. Once upon a time, in another life, I ran a film society. Through my thankless efforts to show movies and publish a journal d. Not a Balanced Book In recent years the increased interest in the restoration of films of all eras and genres has led to a symbiosis between collectors who have one-of-a-kind material and the studios and institutions restoring the films. An example is The Vitaphone Project, which tries to match the audio discs of ea. Captures a By-Gone Era in more Ways Than One Mark Kausler Terrific read, I couldn't put it down! There were people I know on almost every page, and I found out some information on old friends that I wish I HADN'T found! However, it's a story of Film Collectors that had to be told, and when I finished the book, I wanted it to go on forever. If you love m