"For film professionals and buffs, the term "Kitchen Sink movies" refers to those films that take severe right-angle turns at unexpected moments. This volume provides in-depth examinations of 60 of these cultural oddities. By putting these unusual films into cultural context, th…
This an overview of key topics in the study of cult cinema, which they define as "identified by remarkably unusual audience receptions that stress the phenomenal component of the viewing experience, that upset traditional viewing strategies, that are situated at the margins of t…
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…
The cult film reader
'The Cult Film Reader' contains major essays written on the structure, form, status, and reception of global cult cinema traditions. It includes work from key established scholars in the field, including Janet Staiger, Jeffrey Sconce and Umberto Eco, as well as new takes on the …
The Routledge companion to cult cinema
The Routledge companion to cult cinema
The Routledge companion to cult cinema
From Japanese horror to South Korean revenge thrillers, and from the new Hong Kong crime film to Thailand's boundary-breaking ghost stories, Western audiences have been stunned by a boom in challenging cult cinema from East Asia over the last decade. But how did this cycle of 'E…
Be afraid, be very afraid - a century of cinema nightmare with John Landis From B-movie bogeymen and outer space-oddities to big-budget terrors, Monsters in the Movies by horror film maestro John Landis celebrates the greatest monsters ever to creep, fly, slither, stalk or rampa…