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Dying for a laugh : disaster movies and the camp imagination / Ken Feil.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.D55 F45 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feil, Ken.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disaster films--History and criticism.
- Disaster films.
- Homosexuality and motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- First study of disaster movies through reception theory and queer theory.
- Contents:
- Recipes for Disaster: The Rise and Fall of the 1970s Disaster Movie
- From Disaster Parody to Parodic Disaster: Gremlins, Ghostbusters and the Development of High Concept Camp
- Queering the Wreckage and Straightening Up: Camp, Stereotyping and the Late 1990s Disaster Cycle
- "The Movie Is Awful": Mars Attacks! and the Limits of High Concept Camp
- From Camp to Kitsch: 9/11, Taste, and the Imagination of Disaster
- Conclusion: Campy Disaster, Comic Book Movies, and The Day After Tomorrow.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0819567914
- 0819567922
- OCLC:
- 61130816
- Publisher Number:
- 9780819567918
- 9780819567925
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