Call for Roundtable Participants-James Landis The Sadist
Deadline for submission: November 15, 2006
Online: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
the 29th Annual Meeting of the
Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations
February 13–16, 2008
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque , New Mexico
The area chairs for Trangressive Cinema are seeking participants for a roundtable discussion on
James Landis’ 1963, The Sadist. Like Terrence Malick’s Badlands a decade later, The Sadist
takes its story from real-life mass-murdering Romeo and Juliet, Charlie Starkweather and
Caril Fugate. The Sadist also features cult actor Arch Hall Jr. (Eegah!) as half of the homicidal
couple. Along with his insane girlfriend, he makes his way across the country picking victims at
random. Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off
into an old service station and junkyard for repairs. Unfortunately, this is also where Hall has
decided to come off the road, and he manipulates and finally murdersthem just as he had the
owners. This film was a major influence on QuentinTarantino script for Oliver Stone’s 1994 film, Natural Born Killers; the similarities are uncanny. As the inaugural film in the
Starkweather/Fugate cycle, The Sadist is a key text in a modern folktale of a type only exceeded
By the Manson murders. With striking cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond—who would
later win an Oscar for his camera work—The Sadist provides a glimpse at Trangressive Cinema in its most pure form. As a surprisingly accomplishedfilm, it is our hope that The Sadist will
provide a springboard for discussion about exploitation cinema, mass murderers as cultural icons, and transgression as a concept, among other related topics.
Co-chairs
Rob Weiner
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John Cline
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Conference Rates: Professionals, $140; Graduate students $120;
Spouse, partner $50 Information about our areas of study, conference travel, lodging, and the
Organization can be found on our regularly updated website:
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/index.html
We look forward to seeing you this winter in sunny Albuquerque
Where we invite you to explore Route 66, local pueblos, hiking trails,
Museums, the Sandia and Isleta casinos, area ski resorts, and nearby Santa
Fe.
SW/TX PCA/ACA 2008 Conference
February 13-16, 2008
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: 1.505.842.1234
Fax: 1.505.766.6710
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