Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, Vol. 1

By Jacques Boyreau

It's like having your very own drive-in... at home! Portable Grindhouse reprints some of the most louche, decadent, minimo-pervo artwork to evergrace a VHS box, featuring such movies as From Beyond , CopKillers , and Cocaine Wars . A feast for exploitation cognoscenti, Portable Grindhouse is a portable grindhouse. Readers will be agog at theplethora of supertrash movie titles, and then move on to rediscover the anarchicbox designs. Throughout, editor and cultural historian Jacques Boyreausuccinctly narrates the household-piercing story of VHS: "VHS box-art 'became'the iconic equivalent of the movie." Portable Grindhouse is published ina VHS "format," slyly packaged inside a facsimile VHS box, and contains almost ahundred reproductions of VHS art with commentary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560979690
• ISBN13: 9781560979692
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher