Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday & the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive by Lars Nilsen

Trade Paperback, slightly oversized.  Full color throughout!  A beast full of cult film goodies!! Mondo’s new book, WARPED & FADED, tells the story of the Wild West days of the Weird Wednesday film series and American Genre Film Archive in the words of the people who were there. At the dawn of this century, a scrappy one-screen theater in Austin, Texas became ground zero for a revolution in film exhibition. That cinema, the Alamo Drafthouse, took the seemingly foolhardy step of offering free screenings of exploitation and horror movies that had quite literally been consigned to the scrap heap. The idea began in the sleep-deprived mind of its co-founder, Tim League, as he piloted a grotesquely overloaded rental truck home to Texas, with hundreds of otherwise unwanted film prints in the back, an expense he could ill-afford. Why not, he thought, offer a screening series at the theater that would allow everyone to discover these movies simultaneously, as they unfolded on screen in all