Cult cinema: an introduction

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Cult Cinema: an Introduction presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives. Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinemaOffers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the center of current academic debateCovers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult cinema, as well as historical insights into the topic.

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Title Statements

Full title :Cult cinema : an introduction / Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 299 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781444396423, 1444396420
oclc:ocn801405217
LC Classification:PN1995.9.C84
Dewey Decimal:791.43/653

Introduction -- Receptions and debates. Cult reception contexts -- The cult cinema marketplace -- Prestige, awards, and festivals -- Censorship and criticism -- Fandom and subculture -- The cult auteur -- Cult stardom -- Camp and paracinema -- Transgression and freakery -- Gender and sexuality -- Transnationalism and Orientalism -- Religion and utopia -- Themes and genres. Exploitation and B movies -- Underground and avant-garde cinema -- Cult cinema and drugs -- Cult cinema and music -- Classical Hollywood cults -- Cult horror cinema -- Cult science fiction cinema -- Cult blockbusters -- Intertextuality and irony -- Meta-cult.

Subjects

ART -- Film & Video Criticism, interpretation, etc CULT FILMS Cult films -- History and criticism Film Film -- historia Filmgenre Films cultes -- Histoire et critique Filmteori kultfilm PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video Sensationalism in motion pictures Sensationnalisme au cinéma