An alternative history of movies which ignores the auteur theory, structuralism, the studio system, genres, even star ratings, in favour of twenty-four categories, eg, 'crushing', 'bondage', 'wounds', 'sexual assassins' aka forget context; 256 full page uncaptioned reproductions grouped according to these categories accompany the text; with the three all-purpose period taglines: 'The Book That Shocked a Nation', 'Complete and Unexpurgated Translation' and, the clincher, 'Suppressed in Paris' on the front and rear covers.
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