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Rubber Sharks and Wooden Acting: The Ultimate Bad Movie Guide

Nicko Vaughan

Swansea University Author: Nicko Vaughan

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From the hilariously dated moralising of anti-drug propaganda vehicle Reefer Madness (1936) to the mind-boggling awfulness of vanity project pioneer Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003), audiences have always been drawn to the unintended delights of bad movies. What makes a good bad movie? Why do people s...

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ISBN: 978-1-84583-940-6
Published: 5a, Church Road, Bromley, Kent, BR20HP Telos 2016
Online Access: http://www.telos.co.uk
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