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Dying for a laugh disaster movies and the camp imagination
- Title
- Dying for a laugh [electronic resource] : disaster movies and the camp imagination / Ken Feil.
- Author
- Feil, Ken.
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.
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- Description
- 1 online resource (xxix, 233 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Dying for a laugh (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Dying for a laugh (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-222) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- 1. Recipes for disaster : the rise and fall of the 1970s disaster movie -- 2. From disaster parody to parodic disaster : Gremlins, Ghostbusters and the development of high concept camp -- 3. Queering the wreckage and straightening up : camp, stereotyping and the late 1990s disaster cycle -- 4. "The movie is awful" : Mars attacks! and the limits of high concept camp -- 5. From camp to kitsch : 9/11, taste and the imagination of disaster -- Conclusion : campy disaster, comic book movies, and The Day after tomorrow
- LCCN
- 2005020855
- OCLC
- ssj0000276521
- Author
- Feil, Ken.
- Title
- Dying for a laugh [electronic resource] : disaster movies and the camp imagination / Ken Feil.
- Imprint
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-222) and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
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