Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

Author:   Matthew Strohl
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367407667


Pages:   218
Publication Date:   07 January 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Matthew Strohl
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.312kg
ISBN:  

9780367407667


ISBN 10:   0367407663
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   07 January 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. The Good, the Bad, and the Good-Bad 2. Artists’ Intentions and Bad Movie Greatness 3. A Beautiful Rainbow of Badness 4. Taste and Twilight 5. Nicolas Cage and the Limits of the Critical Imagination 6. Bad Movies and the Good Life

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The six chapters of Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies, rich with close film analysis and abnormally accessible philosophical argumentation, convincingly argue that these movies are wonderful. . . . [Strohl's] analytical precision, zealous passion, and overwhelming generosity make Why It's OK To Love Bad Movies genuinely indispensable. Nicholas Whittaker, Los Angeles Review of Books Have you ever said, This movie was so bad that it is good ? If you have-and most of us have-this book is for you. Matthew Strohl has seen them all and celebrates some of them, giving good reasons for doing so, revealing, in articulate and witty prose, a new dimension of aesthetic engagement and appreciation. Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University It's difficult to think of any book on films in the last couple of decades that would combine such rigorous argumentation with an amazingly wide range of examples as Matt Strohl's book. If you have ever had cinematic guilty pleasures, this book is sure to free you from any sense of guilt when indulging in them. Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp I was sipping cocktails with my bourgeois friends and didn't know what I was missing. Matt Strohl's mash note to the rule breakers of cinema (and, by extension, life) is funny, personal and wise. I downloaded The Core and Troll 2 immediately. Twilight is next. Down with Ridicule-let Love rule! Aaron Meskin, University of Georgia


It's difficult to think of any book on films in the last couple of decades that would combine such rigorous argumentation with an amazingly wide range of examples as Matt Strohl's book. If you have ever had cinematic guilty pleasures, this book is sure to free you from any sense of guilt when indulging in them. Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp I was sipping cocktails with my bourgeois friends and didn't know what I was missing. Matt Strohl's mash note to the rule breakers of cinema (and, by extension, life) is funny, personal and wise. I downloaded The Core and Troll 2 immediately. Twilight is next. Down with Ridicule-let Love rule! Aaron Meskin, University of Georgia


Author Information

Matthew Strohl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montana. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and blogs about movies, food, and philosophy of art at strohltopia.com and aestheticsforbirds.com.

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