Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin

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LOST GIRLS is the third book in Spectacular Optical’s ongoing series of limited run film and pop culture books, which includes KID POWER! and SATANIC PANIC: POP CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s and will precede the previously announced YULETIDE TERROR: CHRISTMAS HORROR IN FILM AND TELEVISION, which will be released in fall of 2017.

Curated and edited by Samm Deighan , contributors to LOST GIRLS include some of the most important critical voices to emerge over the last decade of genre journalism: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas , Kat Ellinger , Virginie Selavy , Alison Nastasi , Marcelline Block , Rebecca Booth , Michelle Alexander , Lisa Cunningham , Heather Drain , Erin Miskell , Gianna D’Emilio and Kier-La Janisse , as well as veteran horror journalist Marcelle Perks .

FULL LIST OF CONTENTS:

Le viol du vampire and the Last Surrealist Riot
By Gianna D’Emilio

Cults of Decadence, Cults of Rebellion: La vampire nue and Fascination
By Kat Ellinger

Les paumées du petit matin: A View of Female Violence
By Lisa Cunningham

Blood Sisters: Female Intimacy in Jean Rollin’s Conte de fée
By Samm Deighan

Poète maudit and cinéaste paria: Tristan Corbière as Inspiration for Jean Rollin’s films Les Amours jaunes and La Rose de fer
By Marcelline Block

Disgracing the Family Name: Vampirism as Societal Rebellion in Le frisson des vampires
By Heather Drain

‘Castles of Subversion’ Continued: From the roman noir and surrealism to Jean Rollin
By Virginie Selavy

Les démoniaques: Politics, Poetry, and the Supernatural Rape-Revenge Film
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Manifestations In The Physical Plane: Rollin, Rape, and the Effects of Sexual Assault
By Erin Miskell

Phantasmes: Jean Rollin’s Hardcore Reveries and Work for Hire
By Samm Deighan

“Final Girl” Strategies in Les raisins de la mort, La nuit des traquées, and Les paumées du petit matin
By Marcelle Perks

The Zombie-Gore-Disaster Film…Jean Rollin Style
By Michelle Alexander

Love Among the Iron Roses: The Cemetery as a Romantic Nexus in the Films of Jean Rollin
By Alison Nastasi

Les trottoirs de Bangkok and Killing Car: Serials in Soulless Cities
By Gianna D’Emilio

Ostension, Orality, and the Ogress: The Feminist Fairy Tales of La fiancée de Dracula, La nuit des horloges, and Le masque de la Méduse
By Rebecca Booth

Afterword
By Kier-La Janisse

Language: English

Pages: 434

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Spectacular Optical

Release: September 01, 2017

ISBN 13: 9780992146320

Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin

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Language: English

Pages: 434

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Spectacular Optical

Release: September 01, 2017

ISBN 13: 9780992146320

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Joey Shapiro

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May 05, 2024

this was maybe the biggest secondary source I used for my thesis paper and it ROCKS !!! a series of very fun insightful critical essays on some very strange exciting movies
Cole

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May 05, 2024

total long shot, but does anyone want to sell me their copy?this will never get a repress :(
Sal

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May 05, 2024

Some of the essays read a bit too much like grad school papers, but lots of insights are to be had on a woefully under served filmmaker. Lots of terrific stills, too.
Lance Grabmiller

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May 05, 2024

An excellent book containing essays be women on the work of Jean Rollin. Lavishly illustrated. Surprisingly high quality contributions for a non-academic work.Not without problems, mostly in the editing, including a huge mistake that required a full page insert to correct. And the illustrations kind of get to be a bit much. When 90% of the book is only talking about a half dozen films, including several film stills per page is a bit much. Some of the essays, especially in the last quarter of the...

Joey Shapiro

(5/5)

May 05, 2024

this was maybe the biggest secondary source I used for my thesis paper and it ROCKS !!! a series of very fun insightful critical essays on some very strange exciting movies

Cole

total long shot, but does anyone want to sell me their copy?this will never get a repress :(

Sal

(4/5)

Some of the essays read a bit too much like grad school papers, but lots of insights are to be had on a woefully under served filmmaker. Lots of terrific stills, too.

Lance Grabmiller

(3/5)

An excellent book containing essays be women on the work of Jean Rollin. Lavishly illustrated. Surprisingly high quality contributions for a non-academic work.Not without problems, mostly in the editing, including a huge mistake that required a full page insert to correct. And the illustrations kind of get to be a bit much. When 90% of the book is only talking about a half dozen films, including several film stills per page is a bit much. Some of the essays, especially in the last quarter of the...

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Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin

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Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin

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