Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin

by Samm Deighan (Editor), Alexandra Heller-Nichola, Kat Ellinger

LOST GIRLS is the third book in Spectacular Optical’s ongoing series of limited run film and pop culture books, which includes KID POWER! (2014) and SATANIC PANIC: POP CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s (2015) and will precede the previously announced YULETIDE TERROR: CHRISTMAS HORROR IN FILM AND TELEVISION, which will be released in fall of 2017.

Curated and edited by Samm Deighan (DIABOLIQUE), contributors to LOST GIRLS include some of the most important critical voices to emerge over the last decade of genre journalism: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (SENSES OF CINEMA), Kat Ellinger (DIABOLIQUE), Virginie Selavy (ELECTRIC SHEEP), Alison Nastasi (SATANIC PANIC: POP-CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE 1980s), Marcelline Block (ART DECADES), Rebecca Booth (DIABOLIQUE), Michelle Alexander (CINEMADROME), Lisa Cunningham (THE LAUGHING DEAD: THE HORROR-COMEDY FILM FROM BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN TO ZOMBIELAND), Heather Drain (DANGEROUS MINDS), Erin Miskell (THAT’S NOT CURRENT), Gianna D’Emilio (DIABOLIQUE) and Kier-La Janisse (HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN), as well as veteran horror journalist Marcelle Perks (SHIVERS, EYEBALL).

FULL LIST OF CONTENTS:

Le viol du vampire and the Last Surrealist Riot
By Gianna D’Emilio

Cults of Decadence, Cults of Rebellion: La vampire nue and Fascination
By Kat Ellinger

Les paumées du petit matin: A View of Female Violence
By Lisa Cunningham

Blood Sisters: Female Intimacy in Jean Rollin’s Conte de fée
By Samm Deighan

Poète maudit and cinéaste paria: Tristan Corbière as Inspiration for Jean Rollin’s films Les Amours jaunes and La Rose de fer
By Marcelline Block

Disgracing the Family Name: Vampirism as Societal Rebellion in Le frisson des vampires
By Heather Drain

‘Castles of Subversion’ Continued: From the roman noir and surrealism to Jean Rollin
By Virginie Selavy

Les démoniaques: Politics, Poetry, and the Supernatural Rape-Revenge Film
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Manifestations In The Physical Plane: Rollin, Rape, and the Effects of Sexual Assault
By Erin Miskell

Phantasmes: Jean Rollin’s Hardcore Reveries and Work for Hire
By Samm Deighan

“Final Girl” Strategies in Les raisins de la mort, La nuit des traquées, and Les paumées du petit matin
By Marcelle Perks

The Zombie-Gore-Disaster Film…Jean Rollin Style
By Michelle Alexander

Love Among the Iron Roses: The Cemetery as a Romantic Nexus in the Films of Jean Rollin
By Alison Nastasi

Les trottoirs de Bangkok and Killing Car: Serials in Soulless Cities
By Gianna D’Emilio

Ostension, Orality, and the Ogress: The (Material) Feminist Fairy Tales of La fiancée de Dracula, La nuit des horloges, and Le masque de la Méduse
By Rebecca Booth

Afterword
By Kier-La Janisse

Genres: Film, Nonfiction

434 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2017

Reviews

[Joey Shapiro · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was maybe the biggest secondary source I used for my thesis paper and it ROCKS !!! a series of very fun insightful critical essays on some very strange exciting movies

[Sarah McMullan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent Christmas gift. Thank you, S.

[Lance Grabmiller · Rating 3 out of 5]

An excellent book containing essays be women on the work of Jean Rollin. Lavishly illustrated. Surprisingly high quality contributions for a non-academic work.

Not without problems, mostly in the editing, including a huge mistake that required a full page insert to correct. And the illustrations kind of get to be a bit much. When 90% of the book is only talking about a half dozen films, including several film stills per page is a bit much. Some of the essays, especially in the last quarter of the boo,k have an excellent choice of subject matter for the included illustrations and it kind of shows how gratuitous and unnecessary much of the other imagery is. Also, justified alignment is always a problem when squeezed next to images and a little more careful formatting in some sections should have been considered.

[Sal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the essays read a bit too much like grad school papers, but lots of insights are to be had on a woefully under served filmmaker. Lots of terrific stills, too.

[Jonathan Lange · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is impossible to find. If anyone has access to the pdf of this please contact me and/or upload it to archive.org