Reading Rocky Horror

The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture
2008. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-52503-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show,  dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

It's Just a Jump to the Left: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture; J.A.Weinstock ROCKY HORROR AND GENRE 'Drinking those moments when': The Use (and Abuse) of Late Night Double Feature Science Fiction and Hollywood Icons in The Rocky Horror Picture Show; S.Matheson Rocky Horror Glam Rock; J.Cornell Reflections on the Self-Reflexive Musical: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Classic Hollywood Musical; S.Artt ROCKY HORROR AND CINEMA SPECTATORSHIP Heavy, Dark, and Pendulous: Un-Suturing Rocky Horror; J.A.Weinstock Mocking the Mirror: Film Spectatorship as Hyperreal Simulation; H.C.Levy  & M.A.Levy Wild and Untamed Thing: The Exotic, Erotic, and Neurotic Rocky Horror Performance Cult; M.M.Chemers 'What We Are Watching' Does Not Present 'Us with a Struggle': Rocky Horror, Queer Viewers, and the Alternative Cinematic Spectacle; N.Seymour 'Don't Dream It, Be It': Cultural Performance and Communitas at The Rocky Horror Picture Show; L.Locke The Cult and Its Virgin Sacrifice: Rites of Defloration in and at The Rocky Horror Picture Show; K.Watkins-Morming ROCKY HORROR AND SEXUALITY In Search of the Authentic Queer Epiphany: Normativity and Representations of the Queer Disabled Body in Rocky Horror; B.Hixon The Queer Pedagogy of Dr. Frank-N-Furter; Z.Lamm 'Be Just and Fear Not': Warring Visions of Righteous Decadence and Pragmatic Justice in Rocky Horror; T.G.Endres 'Your Lifestyle's Too Extreme': Rocky Horror, Shock Treatment, and Late Capitalism; K.J.Bozelka

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Artt, Napier University, UK
Kevin John Bozelka, DePaul University, USA
Michael M. Chemers, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Julian Cornell, New York University, USA
Thomas G. Endres, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Ben Hixon, University of Washington, USA
Zachary Lamm, University of Illinois, USA
Heather C. Levy, Independent Scholar
Matthew A. Levy, Pacific Lutheran University, USA

Liz Locke, University of Oklahoma, USA
Sue Matheson, University College of the North, Canada
Nicole Seymour, California State University, USA
Kristina Watkins-Morming, Georgia Gwinnett College, USA