{"id":1560,"date":"2018-03-19T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:07:24","slug":"peter-stanfields-professorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/03\/19\/peter-stanfields-professorial-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Stanfield&#8217;s Professorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are warmly invited to attend Professor Peter Stanfield\u2019s Professorial Lecture, which will be on his latest research project, <strong><em>Hoodlum Movies<\/em>: <em>seriality and the outlaw biker film cycle, 1966-1972.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lecture takes place in ELT2 on Thursday 22nd March from 17:30-20:00.<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Wild Angels<\/em> in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins, neighborhood theaters, and run-down inner-city movie houses. Despised by critics but welcomed by exhibitors unable to book first-run films, these cheaply and quickly made pictures were produced to appeal to audiences of under-educated mobile youths. Plagiarizing contemporary films for plotlines, the cycle reveled in a brutal and lurid sensationalism drawn from the day\u2019s headlines. Disreputable and interchangeable these films maybe, but their lack of cultural legitimacy and low ambition is a large part of the rationale for this study; inviting questions about seriality and film cycles that are otherwise ignored in histories of 1960s and 70s American film. <em>Hoodlum Movies<\/em> explains why and how these films were made, who they were made for, and how the cycle developed through the second half of the 1960s before coming to a shuddering halt in 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are warmly invited to attend Professor Peter Stanfield\u2019s Professorial Lecture, which will be on his latest research project, Hoodlum Movies: seriality and the outlaw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/03\/19\/peter-stanfields-professorial-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5263,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84092,112,1123,124,9112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1562,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}