Snuff

By: McKenna, Mark

Snuff (1976) occupies a unique place in cinematic history, as the first commercially successful film to capitalise upon the myth of the 'snuff' movie. By blending cinema verit styling with a media moral panic, savvy producer Allan Shackleton's blending of a long-forgotten exploitation film with a newly filmed bloody, if unconvincing conclusion, only served to consolidate the belief that somewhere, at some time, someone was killed on camera...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800859384
• ISBN13: 9781800859388
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 112 Pages