The Manson Family on Film and Television

For years, the story has been documented, dramatized and lampooned in dozens of films and television programs.

Author: Ian Cooper

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476670430

Category: Performing Arts

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For half a century the Manson Family has captured the public imagination--the lurid, inexplicable violence in a glamorous Hollywood setting, the bizarre and lengthy trials, and Charles Manson's strange charisma and willingness to embrace the role of evil icon. For years, the story has been documented, dramatized and lampooned in dozens of films and television programs. This comprehensive study examines the various on-screen portrayals, from factual accounts based on prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's true crime classic Helter Skelter to prime-time TV dramas to a claymation spoof and even hardcore porn.
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The Manson Family on Film and Television

Writing about the Familyinspired horror film The Strangers (discussed in an earlier chapter), Philip L. Simpson identifies a parallel with the 9/11 attacks, the depiction of “increasingly nihilistic scenarios of sudden unexpected doom ...

Author: Ian Cooper

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476633800

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 213

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For half a century the Manson Family has captured the public imagination—the lurid, inexplicable violence in a glamorous Hollywood setting, the bizarre and lengthy trials, and Charles Manson’s strange charisma and willingness to embrace the role of evil icon. For years, the story has been documented, dramatized and lampooned in dozens of films and television programs. This comprehensive study examines the various on-screen portrayals, from factual accounts based on prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s true crime classic Helter Skelter to prime-time TV dramas to a claymation spoof and even hardcore porn.
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The Rise of True Crime 20th Century Murder and American Popular Culture

The connections with film and media surrounding the Manson phenomenon boggle the mind: while committing their heinous murders, the Manson family lived on the Spahn movie ranch outside Los Angeles that had been used as a set for ...

Author: Jean Murley

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 9781573567725

Category: Social Science

Page: 192

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During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the unknown thoughts and motivations of killers than others had been before. This turned out to be the start of a revolution, and, after a century of escalating accounts, we have now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. The Rise of True Crime examines the various genres of true crime using the most popular and well-known examples. And despite its examination of some of the potentially negative effects of the genre, it is written for people who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it. With skyrocketing crime rates and the appearance of a frightening trend toward social chaos in the 1970s, books, documentaries, and fiction films in the true crime genre tried to make sense of the Charles Manson crimes and the Gary Gilmore execution events. And in the 1980s and 1990s, true crime taught pop culture consumers about forensics, profiling, and highly technical aspects of criminology. We have thus now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. Through the suggestion that certain kinds of killers are monstrous or outside the realm of human morality, and through the perpetuation of the stranger-danger idea, the true crime aesthetic has both responded to and fostered our culture's fears. True crime is also the site of a dramatic confrontation with the concept of evil, and one of the few places in American public discourse where moral terms are used without any irony, and notions and definitions of evil are presented without ambiguity. When seen within its historical context, true crime emerges as a vibrant and meaningful strand of popular culture, one that is unfortunately devalued as lurid and meaningless pulp.
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Women in True Crime Media

Before 2004, there had not been a project on the Manson Family murders since 1989.12 In the decade that followed, there were six movies and television shows, all ushered in by Helter Skelter. Based on the best seller by Manson trial ...

Author: Jen Erdman

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476646183

Category: Social Science

Page: 261

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While many people think true crime is a new phenomenon, Americans have been obsessed with the genre for over a century, and popular culture continuously tries to cash in. The names of infamous serial killers are well-known, but the identities of their often-female victims are frequently lost to history. This text flips the script and focuses on the women to keep their identities known and remembered. This is the first book to examine how popular culture has mistreated women as both perpetrators and victims of crime, covering a hundred-year span from 1920 to 2020. Detailed is popular culture's interest in true crime and how women in true crime documentation have largely been sexualized and victim-blamed over the decades.
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Screening the Undead

Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television Leon Hunt, Sharon Lockyer, Milly Williamson ... But there were other films which used Manson Family imagery, as in the crazed cults and assorted freaks in the likes of I Drink Your Blood ...

Author: Leon Hunt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9780857735430

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 288

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The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, grotesque, countercultural, a goth icon or lonely outsider. The zombie can shamble or, nowadays, sprint with alarming velocity, and even dance. It frequently lends itself to metaphor and can stand in for fascism or ecological disaster, but is perhaps most frequently a harbinger and instrument of the apocalypse. Leading writers on Horror and cult media consider the sexy vampire and the grotesque zombie, as well as hybrid figures who do not fit neatly into either category. These are examined across a range of contexts, from the Swedish vampire to the Afro-American Blacula, from the lesbian vampire to the gay zombie, from the Spanish Knights Templar riding skeletal horses to dancing Japanese zombies. Screening the Undead sheds new light on these two icons of terror - and desire - whose popular longevity has taken them 'Beyond Life'.
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Mind Reeling

Of course, the Manson family has spawned numerous films, television miniseries, and documentaries that were mostly based upon Vincent Bugliosi's Helter-Skelter (1974). Criminal biopics became part of the American, and to some extent the ...

Author: Homer B. Pettey

Publisher: State University of New York Press

ISBN: 9781438481029

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 307

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Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema. Mind Reeling investigates how cinema displays and mirrors psychological disorders, such as bipolar disorder, amnesia, psychotic delusions, obsessive compulsive behavior, trauma, paranoia, and borderline personalities. It explores a range of genres, including biopics, comedies, film noirs, contemporary dramedies, thrillers, Gothic mysteries, and docufictions. The contributors open up critical approaches to audience fascination with film depictions of serious disturbances within the human psyche. Many films examined here have had little scholarly attention and commentary. These essays focus on how cinematic techniques contribute to popular culture's conception of mental dysfunction, trauma, and illness. This book reveals the complex artistic and generic patterns that produce contemporary images of psychopathology in cinema. Homer B. Pettey is Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at the University of Arizona. He is the editor of several books, including Hitchcock's Moral Gaze (with R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders) and Rule Brittannia! The Biopic and British National Identity (with R. Barton Palmer), both also published by SUNY Press.
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Obituaries in the Performing Arts 2017

Marcelo Games portrayed Manson in Jim Van Bebber's film, The Manson Family, highlighting the horrific murders. He was also the subject of numerous television and film documentaries. Manson was briefly married to Rosalie Jean Willis in ...

Author: Harris M. Lentz III

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 9781476633183

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 447

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 The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedians Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory, country singer Glen Campbell, playwright Sam Shepard and actor-singer Jim Nabors. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2017 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers. Books in this annual series are available dating to 1994—a subscription is available for future volumes.
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Shocking Cinema of the 70s

2014), Life After Manson (Olivia Klaus, 2014) and the Lifetime Television movie Manson's Lost Girls (Leslie ... But it was Jim VanBebber's The Manson Family , released in 2004, that came closest to the gusto of the 1970s Manson movies.

Author: Julian Petley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781350136298

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 336

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This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various 'difficult' subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. It is not an uncritical celebration of the shocking and the subversive but an attempt to understand why this decade produced films which many found shocking, and what it was that made them shocking to certain audiences. To this end it includes not only films that shocked the conventionally minded, such as hard core pornography, but also those that outraged liberal opinion – for example, Death Wish and Dirty Harry. The book does not simply cast a critical light on a series of controversial films which have been variously maligned, misinterpreted or just plain ignored, but also assesses how their production values, narrative features and critical receptions can be linked to the wider historical and social forces that were dominant during this decade. Furthermore, it explores how these films resonate in our own historical moment – replete as it is with shocks of all kinds.
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Charles Manson

The massacres have resulted in many horror films, reserved for fans of the genre: from the very special The Cult (Kentucky Jones, 1971), The Manson Family (Jim Van Bebber 2003), to Manson Family Movies (1984) and House of Manson (2014), ...

Author: Laurent Poret

Publisher: Laurent Poret

ISBN:

Category: Fiction

Page: 61

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Charles Manson, a famous criminal who had sponsored a wave of murders in the United States in the 1960s, died at the age of 83. A look back at the psychopathic guru's hallucinating journey. "Have you ever dreamed of a place you didn't remember going to?" asks ex-hippie Peter Fonda to a young woman fascinated by the sixties in Steven Soderbergh's The English in 1999. A place that may only exist in your imagination. A distant place, only half of which you remember when you woke up. When you were there, you knew the language, you knew how to handle it. That was the 1960s. No, not even that. Only 66 and the beginning of 67. That's all". And then what?
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Cult Epics

But chief among all is Manson's second life in books, pictorials, TV movies, exploitation films, and appearances on TV ... Part amateurish recreation, Manson Family Movies quickly develops its own mystique and power because of three key ...

Author: Nico B

Publisher: SCB Distributors

ISBN: 9780999862711

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 256

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Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Cult Epics – the controversial arthouse, horror and erotica video label – this commemorative hardcover book covers essential releases from filmmakers such as Tinto Brass, Fernando Arrabal, Radley Metzger, Walerian Borowcyzk, Jean Genet, Abel Ferrara, George Barry, Rene Daalder, Agusti Villaronga, Jorg Buttgereit, Gerald Kargl, Nico B, Irving Klaw, and pinup legend Bettie Page. Includes in-depth reviews of films, interviews, and essays on directors by film critics Nathaniel Thompson, Mark R. Hasan, Michael den Boer, Ian Jane, Stephen Thrower, Marcus Stiglegger, Heather Drain and others – fully illustrated in color with rare photos, poster art, and memorabilia.
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