A social history of the ‘video nasty’. In the early 1980s, video technology forever changed the face of home entertainment. The videocassette – a handy-si

Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as Adam Rockoff, “a passionate fan of the horror genre in all its forms,” (The New York Times) recalls a life

Considers the technological, economic and aesthetic histories of the early British video industry as part of the broader global film industry.

Why and how film and video censorship has developed in Britain since the birth of the domestic video industry in 1979.

The video nasties scare was one of the more memorable, and unbelievable, media sensations of the 1980s. The influx of cheap foreign sex and gore shockers outrag