Trash or Treasure: Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties

by Kate Egan

Book Overview

Trash or treasure is a wide-ranging historical study of the British circulation of the video nasties - A term that was originally coined to ban a group of horror videos in Britain in the 1980s but which continues to have cultural resonance in Britain up to the present day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719072336
• ISBN13: 9780719072338
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"