![]() ![]() ![]() ), in which textual “badness”-such as unconvincing characters, unmotivated narratives-diverts attention to extra-textual excesses-egomaniacal stars, ballooning budgets, unpredictable shooting schedules, and other controversies. ), and Ron Underwood’s The Adventures of Pluto Nash ( 2002 The Adventures of Pluto Nash. By the phrase disastrous Hollywood flops, I refer to such productions as Joseph Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra ( 1963 Cleopatra. More specific subtypes include: “mondo” films, splatter-cinema, beach-party musicals, government hygiene films, and Elvis films. 1 Following Jeffrey Sconce’s influential definition of paracinema, I use the term exploitation cinema to designate a wide variety of low-budget, lowbrow films produced outside the Hollywood studio system between the 1910s and 1960s.
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