Midnight movies

Midnight movies

by Hoberman, J.

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These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges. Supplemented with a new afterward detailing the …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Midnight movies / J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Summary

These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges. Supplemented with a new afterward detailing the accommodation of midnight movies into the mainstream and speculating on the future of the genre, Midnight Movies is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and future of American cinema.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1983.
  • Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Harper & Row
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©1983.

The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 338 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0060150521, 9780060150525, 0060909900, 9780060909901
  • oclc:ocm08669357
  • LC Classification:PN1995
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43/0973

Table of Contents

Authors' note -- The birth of Rocky horror -- Cults, fetishes, and freaks : sex and salvation at the movies -- The underground -- El Topo : through the wasteland of the counterculture -- George Romero and the return of the repressed -- John Waters presents "the filthiest people alive" -- Rocky horror madness -- Eraserhead -- Rock, drugs, drag, camp, punk, gore, and agit-prop -- Rethinking midnight movies : a dialogue.

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Subjects

Cinéma -- États-Unis Cinéma -- Scénarios -- Histoire et crit… Criticism, interpretation, etc Cult films, to 1981 Cultfilms Griezelfilms Horror films Motion picture plays, American Motion picture plays, American -- Histo… Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History. -- United S… Motion pictures -- United States Scénarios de cinéma américains -- Histo… United States

Writers

Hoberman, J. Rosenbaum, Jonathan

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