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A Thousand Slashes is a candid exploration of 1 of America's strangest & most quickly vanishing subcultures. It really is about the death of physical film in the digital period and in regards to a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive band of film-mad collectors who made films and their projection a private religion in the time before DVDs and Blu-rays. The e book includes the experiences of film historian/critic Leonard Maltin, TCM number Robert Osborne speaking about Rock Hudson's hidden knowledge 1970s film vault, RoboCop producer Jon Davison dropping acid and screening Ruler Kong with Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East, and Academy Award-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow recounting his decades-long mission to restore the 1927 Napoleon. Writers Dennis Bartok and Jeff Joseph take a look at the FBI's and Justice Department's advertising campaign to harass, intimidate, and arrest film retailers and collectors in the first 1970s. Many of those persecuted were gay men. Subjects included Entire world of the Apes star Roddy McDowall, who was simply arrested in 1974 for film collecting and forced to name brands of fellow collectors, including Rock Hudson and Mel Tormé. A Thousand Slashes explores the obsessions of the colourful individuals who created their own screening rooms, spent vast sums, negotiated underground networks, and even risked legal jeopardy to follow their love for real, physical film. The e book is published by University or college Press of Mississippi.
