TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathijs,Ernest
AU  - Mendik,Xavier
TI  - The cult film reader
SN  - 0335219233 (pb.)
AV  - PN1995.9.C84 C85 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, New York
PB  - Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education
KW  - Cult films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - History
N1  - "Cult bibliography": p. [495]-521; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The; concept of cult; Film cults; Harry Allan Potamkin; The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction; Walter Benjamin; Notes on "camp"; Susan Sontag; Uses of camp; Andrew Ross; Casablanca : cult movies and intertextual collage; Umberto Eco; Science fiction double feature : ideology in the cult film; Barry K. Grant; Semiotics by instinct : "cult film" as a signifying practice between film and audience; Anne Jerslev; "Trashing" the acadamy : taste, excess and an emerging politics of cinematic style; Jeffrey Sconce; Sleaze mania, Euro-trash and high art : the place of European art films in American low culture; Joan Hawkins; Media fandom, neoreligiousity and cult(ural) studies; Matt Hills; Cult fictions : cult movies, subcultural capital and the production of cultural distinctions; Mark Jancovich --; Cult case studies; Un; chien andalou; Jean Vigo; The anxiety of influence : Georges Franju and the medical horrorshows of Jess Franco; Joan Hawkins; The obscene seen : spectacle and transgression in postwar burlesque films; Eric Schaefer; Orson Welles and the big experimental film cult; Parker Tyler; Little cinema of horrors; Gary Hentzi; What is a cult horror film?; Welch Everman; Blaxploitation horror films : generic reappropriation or reinscription?; Harry Benshoff; Carter in context; Steve Chibnall; The future of allusion : Hollywood in the seventies (and beyond); Noel Carroll; Hitchcock in Texas : intertextuality in the face of blood and gore; Janet Staiger; The essential evil in/of Eraserhead (or, Lynch to the contrary); Steven Jay Schneider; The cult of horror; Lawrence O'Toole; The Blair witch project : film and the internet; J.P. Telotte --; National and international cults; El; topo : through the wasteland of the counterculture; J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum; Playing with genre : an introduction to the Italian giallo; Gary Needham; Han's island revisited : Enter the dragon as transnational cult film; Leon Hunt; Magical girls and atomic bomb sperm : Japanese animation in America; Annalee Newitz; The killer : cult film and transcultural (mis)reading; Jinsoo An; Trading in horror, cult and matricide : Peter Jackson's phenomenal bad taste and New Zealand fantasies of inter/national cinematic success; Harmony Wu; Invisible representation : the oral contours of a national popular cinema; Sheila J. Nayar; Mute bodies, disembodied voices : notes on sound in Turkish popular cinema; Nezih Erdoǧan; Ichi the killer; Tom Mes --; Cult consumption; Cult of distraction : on Berlin's picture palaces; Siegfried Kracauer; Introduction to distinction; Pierre Bourdieu; Portrait of a cult film audience : The Rocky Horror picture show; Bruce A. Austin; Subcultural studies and the film audience : rethinking the film viewing context; Gina Marchetti; 'Fans' notes : the horror film fanzine; David Sanjek; Get a life! : fans, poachers, nomads; Henry Jenkins; The cultural economy of fandom; John Fiske; The crash controversy : reviewing the press; Martin Barker, Jane Arthurs, Ramaswami Harindranath; Beaver Las Vegas! : a fan-boy's defence of Showgirls; I.Q. Hunter; Menstrual monsters : the reception of the Ginger snaps cult horror franchise; Martin Barker, Ernest Mathijs, Xavier Mendik
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