ReFocus: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
ReFocus: The American Directors Series
ISBN-10
139953601X
ISBN-13
9781399536011
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 2026
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
24.40 x 16.30 x 1.80 cms
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Explores the influence of American director Herschell Gordon Lewis on exploitation cinema.
Dubbed “The Godfather of Gore,” no other exploitation filmmaker made the most of scant budgets, short shooting schedules and amateur special effects like the legendary Herschell Gordon Lewis. Making his mark with Blood Feast in 1963 and helming such notorious splatter-shockers as Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), The Gruesome Twosome (1967) and The Gore Gore Girls (1972), the director provoked generations of indebted genre stylists – from John Waters and Frank Henenlotter to Eli Roth and Damien Leone, with his hit Terrifier franchise. This is the first academic study into the work of Lewis, covering not just his bloodstained celluloid, but also his background in sexploitation and infomercials. In doing so, this entry in the ReFocus series takes one of cinema’s most influential low budget craftsmen out of the grindhouse and considers him as an Avant Garde auteur in his own right.
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