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Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression: A Select Survey Over 9 Decades
by
Allan Havis
Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression looks at nine decades of cult film 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
...morePaperback, 119 pages
Published
March 28th 2008
by University Press of America
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Cult Films is a short, superficial overview of some of the more interesting cult films from the past century. The author takes three movies from each decade since the 1920s, and gives a brief explanation of why these flicks are still interesting for film lovers.
Sadly, at least half the contents of this already short book are wasted on generic description of the decade zeitgeist and plot summary of the films themselves. This leaves hardly any room for a decent analysis of the films th...more
Sadly, at least half the contents of this already short book are wasted on generic description of the decade zeitgeist and plot summary of the films themselves. This leaves hardly any room for a decent analysis of the films th...more
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