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Mural Urban Art Festival
Art Festivals | Jun 5 - Jun 15, 2025
Canada > Québec > Montréal > > H2W 1Z5
Netflix Bites MGM Grand Las Vegas
Pop Ups and Vendor Markets | Feb 11, 2025 - Feb 20, 2026
United States > Nevada > Las Vegas > > 89109

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Enter the My Nintendo Universal Epic Universe Super Nintendo World Sweepstakes
Gaming Contests | Mar 4 - Jun 30, 2025
United States > Florida > Orlando > > 32819

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Formula 1 Grand Prix of Canada
Sporting Events | Jun 13 - Jun 15, 2025
Canada > Québec > Montréal > > H3C 6A1
American Black Film Festival
Film Festivals | Jun 11 - Jun 15, 2025
United States > Florida > Miami > > 33127

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When We Free the World Documentary Father's Day Screening and Discussion
Film Screenings and Series | Jun 15, 2025
United States > New York > New York City > > 10012

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Tribeca Film Festival Features Predator: Killer of Killers Screening, David Cronenberg in Person, a Billy Joel Celebration and More
Film Festivals | Jun 4 - Jun 15, 2025
United States > New York > New York City > > 10003

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When We Free the World Documentary Father's Day Screening and Discussion
Film Screenings and Series | Jun 15, 2025
United States > New York > New York City > > 10012
Fathom's Big Screen Classics Presents Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Film Screenings and Series | Jun 14 - Jun 18, 2025

June 15th In History

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De Niro Con, Tribeca Film Festival
Art Exhibitions | Jun 14 - Jun 16, 2024
United States > New York > New York City > > 10013

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James Marsden and Jury Duty Cast Stage Taco Truck Takeover
Giveaways | Jun 14 - Jun 16, 2023
United States > California > Beverly Hills > > 90210

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First-ever Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival
Art Exhibitions | May 20 - Dec 31, 2023
Hong Kong > > Sai Wan Ho

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De Niro Con, Tribeca Film Festival
Art Exhibitions | Jun 14 - Jun 16, 2024
United States > New York > New York City > > 10013

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Casey Kasem
Deaths | Jun 15, 2014
Alice Englert
Birthdays | Jun 15, 1994

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Comet TV to Screen Dystopian Sci-Fi Cult Classics for Comet Fest 2024
Television Festivals | Jun 15 - Jun 17, 2024
De Niro Con, Tribeca Film Festival
Art Exhibitions | Jun 14 - Jun 16, 2024
United States > New York > New York City > > 10013

80’s Horror Book Aesthetic Deviations Signing with Author Vincent Albarano | Aug 19, 2023

80's Horror Book Aesthetic Deviations Signing with Author Vincent Albarano

Signings and Appearances | Aug 19, 2023

Forbidden Planet NYC

Forbidden Planet New York City is hosting an in-store signing with author Vincent Albarano for his book Aesthetic Deviations from Headpress Books. Aesthetic Deviations is the first serious critical overview of American shot-on-video horror films from the years 1984 through 1994.

Filmed with consumer-grade camcorders and other analog video formats, amateur SOV efforts are generally regarded as the lowest-common-denominator of genre films by fans and scholars of paracinema, if acknowledged at all. Long considered the dead-end of genre cinema, Shot-On-Video (SOV) horror finally gets its due as a serious filmmaking study.

Using classic fanzines, promotional materials, and especially the theories of several important film scholars, Vincent Albarano brings SOV horror into critical focus for the first time in print. Prior to this moment, Video Violence, Twisted Issues, Alien Beasts, and more have never been mentioned in the same breath as André Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, despite their common ground.

Aesthetic Deviations: A Critical View of American Shot-on-Video Horror, delves deep into several of the most famous SOV horror titles to give credit for their unique and singular contributions to independent genre cinema. Informed equally by a fan’s passion and the studied approaches of scholarly analysis, Albarano offers the first-ever detailed examination of the SOV horror cycle, proving that this strain of amateur filmmaking is deserving of proper appraisal. Sure to enlighten and provoke thought among fans and converts to the unique charms of SOV cinema, as well as inspire newcomers, Albarano’s book proves an invaluable resource for a neglected area of cinematic inquiry.

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