Product Description
Whether serious, funny, historical, shocking, or just plain weird, biker movies forged a permanent place in popular culture, shaping, reflecting, and even spoofing the biker lifestyle. The first book to explore biker movies and how they informed the public’s perception of bikers provides a fascinating view of why “straights” remain fascinated by the image of the outlaw biker. Author Mike Seate is a motorcyclist, columnist, film critic, and motorcycle journalist…. More >>
#1 by bikerfish johnny on July 2, 2010 - 6:32 pm
If you don’t know, Mike Seate is a writer and editor for some of the worlds top motorcycle magazines. I bought this book on his credentials alone. He’s a good story teller and I enjoyed the book, but it is not the definitive guide to biker movies. I collect bikesploitation films, and Mr. Seat doesn’t mention half of them. He doesn’t give much historical perspective for the films, except to say that they all fed into the biker paranoia of the 60’s, and then made a conversion to biker as hero in the 80’s (sort of art-imitates-life-imitates-art). If you want a thumbnail of the genre, this will provide that, but he doesn’t stray much from the mainstream.
Rating: 4 / 5