Cult film as a guide to life : fandom, adaptation, and identity /

Cult film as a guide to life : fandom, adaptation, and identity /

"A collection of closely related essays on cult film, cult adaptations, and cultism as a way of life"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunter, I. Q., 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Subjects:
Cult films > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Cults.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Cult films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Ilustrations
  • Preface
  • For virgins only: a brief introduction to cult film
  • Beaver Las Vegas! a fan-boy's defence of showgirls
  • Wasting time in the Stanley hotel
  • Cult adaptations
  • Exploitation as adaptation
  • Erotic inferno
  • Tolkien dirty
  • From adaptation to cinephilia: an intertextual odyssey
  • Cult film as a guide to life
  • Notes
  • Index.