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

Title
Cult cinema : an introduction / Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton.
Author
Mathijs, Ernest
Publication
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Sexton, Jamie
Description
x, 299 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Cult films > History and criticism
  • Sensationalism in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes filmography.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Receptions and debates. Cult reception contexts -- The cult cinema marketplace -- Prestige, awards, and festivals -- Censorship and criticism -- Random 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.
ISBN
  • 9781405173742 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1405173742 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781405173735 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405173734 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010051053
OCLC
  • 692084802
  • SCSB-10845150
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library