Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Paracinema Culture and Psychotronic Style -- 1. Sleaze-Mania, Euro-trash, and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture -- 2. Medium Cool: Video Culture, Video Aesthetics -- II. At the Crossroads -- 3. Art Houses and Horrorshows -- or, Pauline Kael Meets Georges Franju -- 4. The Scalpel's Edge: Georges Franju's Les yeux sans visage -- 5. The Anxiety of Influence: Georges Franju and the Medical Horrorshows of Jess Franco -- III. When Horror Meets the Avant-garde -- 6. Exploitation Meets Direct Cinema: Yoko Ono's Rape and the Trash Cinema of Michael and Roberta Findlay -- 7. From Horror to Avant-garde: Tod Browning's Freaks -- 8. Monsters in the Art World: Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey -- Conclusion: Mainstreaming Trash Aesthetics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Select Filmography and Videography -- Video Distributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.