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Dying for a laugh : disaster movies and the camp imagination
- Title
- Dying for a laugh : disaster movies and the camp imagination / Ken Feil.
- Author
- Feil, Ken.
- Publication
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2005], ©2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.D55 F45 2005 | Off-site | |
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- Description
- xxix, 233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Recipes for disaster : the rise and fall of the 1970s disaster movie -- Ch. 2. From disaster parody to parodic disaster : Gremlins, Ghostbusters and the development of high concept camp -- Ch. 3. Queering the wreckage and straightening up : camp, stereotyping and the late 1990s disaster cycle -- Ch. 4. "The movie is awful" : Mars attacks! and the limits of high concept camp -- Ch. 5. From camp to kitsch : 9/11, taste, and the imagination of disaster -- Conclusion : campy disaster, comic book movies, and The day after tomorrow.
- ISBN
- 0819567914 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0819567922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005020855
- 9780819567918
- 9780819567925
- OCLC
- OCM61130816
- SCSB-5217723
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries