Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression: A Select Survey Over 9 Decades (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761839675)

Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression looks at nine decades of cult films history within American culture. By highlighting three films per decade including a brief summary of the decade's identity and sensibility, the book investigates the quality, ironies, and spirit of cult film evolution. The twenty-seven films selected for this study are analyzed for story content and in their respective transgressions regarding social, aesthetic, and political codes. Characteristic of this book is the notion that many exciting genres make up cult films-including horror, sci-fi, fantasy, film noir, and black comedy. Further, the book reaches out to several foreign film directors over the decades in order to view cult films as an intentional art form. Political and ideological controversies are covered; arresting back-story details that lend perspective on a film fill out the analysis and the historic framework for many film titles. The book, by emphasizing the condensed survey over decades and by choosing outstanding titles, differs from other general studies on cult films.

Author: Allan Havis
ISBN-10: 0761839674
ISBN-13: 9780761839675
Publisher: University Press of America
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.30w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 320