Abstract
This essay explores the direct-to-DVD movie, successor to the direct-to-video cinema of the 1980s and 1990s, and argues that this field of cultural production offers a space for the generation and proliferation of 'undecidable' genre-hybrid films. Taking as a focus David DeCoteau's homoerotic creature-featureLeeches!, the article explores how audience groupings have been altered and reconstituted in relation to DVD as a distinct technology. The essay argues that the sheer volume of direct-to-DVD production facilitates perverse genre-blurring, and brings previously segregated niche audience demographics into contact and discussion with each other.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | DVDs, Audience Configurations, and Generic Hybridity |
| Editors | James Bennett, Tom Brown |
| Place of Publication | New York and Abingdon, Oxon |
| Publisher | Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |
| Pages | 45-62 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-415-96241-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- film, DVD, horror, genre, DTV