Related: Mondo Cane (1962) – Mondo Bizarro – Italian cinema – Gualtiero Jacopetti
Mondo Cane (1962) – Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi
Having recently received comments by Lichanos and o. h. about the validity of guilty pleasure as a separate cultural category I show the film above, Mondo Cane (1962), by Gualtiero Jacopetti and his colleague whose name escapes me at this time.
I always feel tempted instead of arguing to cite a collection of words and concepts which will tautologically exlain the concept. I will not resist the temptation now. Here they come:
I continue:
See also: “body” genres” – bread and circuses – “low” art – lowbrow (American art movement) – working class culture – culture – folk culture – popular culture
Related by connotation: artificial – bad taste – basic instinct – camp – cheap – commercial – conventional – common – derivative – entertaining – ephemera – exploitation – formulaic – low budget – lurid – mass – ordinary – pop – popular – proletariat – prurient – sensationalism – scatology – shocking – stereotype – trash – under-the-counter – underground – vulgar
Contrast: “high” culture
See also: low modernism
In film: B-movies – exploitation films – grindhouse films – paracinema – television – video nasties – violent films
In print: comics – escapist fiction – dime novels – genre fiction – men’s magazines – paraliterature – popular fiction – pulp fiction – yellow journalism
In music: disco – house – music hall – popular music – pop music –
In the visual realm: advertising – applied arts – caricature – decorative arts – design – graffiti – kitsch
In performing arts: burlesque – circus – peepshow – striptease – vaudeville –
By genre: adventure – “body” genres – carnival – comedy – horror – melodrama – pornography – romance
Perhaps one day I will put all of the above words in the right order, divide them into chapters, add adjectives, conjunctions, phrases and clauses and page numbers.
Furthermore, guilty pleasures are marketing categories (see the Foute CD products in the Dutch-speaking region), and marketing categories are the strongest indication of genre identity.
Notice that all links go to Jahsonic.com pages, a project which was from the outset a “guilty pleasure” in nature and purpose.
