- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Columbia University Press (21 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905674503
- ISBN-13: 978-1905674503
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.4 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 835,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Within just a few years, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" grew from an oddball musical to a celebrated cinematic experience of midnight features and outrageous audience participation. This study tells the extraordinary story of the film from initial reception to eventual cult status. Uncovering the film's non-conformist sexual politics and glam-rock attitude, this volume explores its emphasis on the theatrical body (tattooed, cross-gendered, flamboyant), and its defiant queering of cinema history.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read the first two 'cultographies' published in this series, and immediately ordered the third. Both are excellent books of film criticism. The RHPS title, like the Donnie Darko text, is aimed, I would guess, at those who are interested in the study of cinema, rather than those who are themselves RHPS cultists (although the two are not mutually exclusive). There are now at least three different series of small books that deal with particular films. The worst of these are written without rigour by fans, and reiterate facts and trivia. The titles in this series so far have treated the films with both enthusiasm and intellectual/critical respect, taking as their starting point the presumption that the films merit and deserve proper consideration. The RHPS title explains how the film became (after a fairly hesitant start) a cult phenomenon and a part of the popular culture landscape, and pays particular attention to gender issues (including the treatment of marriage and sexual stereotypes), and to its own treatment of the 'science fiction double feature'. The language is scholarly but entertaining, there are endnotes, and the content was sufficiently stimulating for me both to read the book in one go on a wet afternoon, and then to pull out and rewatch the DVD. If the author ever reads this review, thank you!
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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What a load of navel-gazing tosh! The Rocky Horror Show (stage & screen) is one of the greatest musicals ever written but this author does it a huge dis-service by trying to over analyse it. It's not difficult or deep and meaningful; it's a down & dirty combination of B movies, sex & rock 'n' roll, which is precisely what Richard O'Brien wanted to write. The 'queering of cinematic history', the institution of marriage, the pink triangle reference to the holocaust?! Oh per-leeease. I want my money back.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
fantastic book
28 Dec 2010
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I bought this book for a research paper I was writing, and it turned out to be my best source. Weinstock has created a fantastic read that sheds some light on the academics behind Rocky Horror. It was also a lot of fun to read as well. I highly recommend it.
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