Midnight movies

Da Capo Press

1991

ix, 348 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331–337) and index

9780306804335

Contents: Author's note ; Acknowledgments ; Birth of Rocky Horror ; Cults, fetishes, and freaks: sex and salvation at the movies ; Underground ; El Topo: through the wasteland of the counterculture ; George Romero and the return of the repressed ; John Waters presents «The Filthiest People Alive» ; Rocky Horror madness ; Eraserhead ; Rock, drugs, drag, camp, punk, gore, and agit-prop ; Rethinking midnight movies: a dialogue ; Afterword

These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become «midnight movies,» and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges. Supplemented with a new afterward detailing the accommodation of midnight movies into the mainstream and speculating on the future of the genre, Midnight Movies is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and future of American cinema.

Motion picture plays, American -- History and criticism, Motion pictures -- United States

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