Headpress Books
Established 1991
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The Watergate scandal was a horror show. What better way to satirize it than with a horror movie? A fascinating minute-by-minute exploration of many uncanny connections between The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Watergate.
A latter-day Journal of the Plague Year. Rekindles our ties with culture, and affirms friendship, empathy and love.
“Everyone knew I had it coming, even me.”
Hong Kong films ripped through kung fu stereotypes in the 80s/90s. Here’s the definitive tome on stunt hazards, pistol ballets, snarky gangsters and toothsome molls, hopping vampires, and Hong Kong noir.
“I’m personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, but it’s what the people want.”
Saparmurat Niyazov, dictator of Turkmenistan
Brooklyn, 1955-64: A boy learns about life and death from the WWII vets and Holocaust survivors who surround him.
Part memoir, part film criticism, this book looks at the affect New York and New Jersey theatre audiences had on films as much as it is a book about exploitation films.
A rare insider’s view of the post-industrial music underground.
A unique take on the Beatles and their most controversial and divisive LP, reflecting the true spirit of the LP.
For fans of old Times Square and midnight, cult, horror, and exploitation movies.
Why would anyone want to visit sites touched by death in the first place?
Interviews with fifty-two of the most radical people in the world.
The only biography of legendary scriptwriter Nigel Kneale, fully revised & updated.
When the Movie of the Week ruled the airwaves!
“Morrissey perhaps was seduced by LA like most people who are not from here, lured by the nostalgia of old Hollywood or perhaps simple sunshine.”
The first book devoted to power electronics, written by artists, fans, and critics.