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Challenging “La Vie Bohème”: Community, Subculture, and Queer Temporality in Rent
“…Since the 1980s, American film musicals have been increasingly concerned with subjectivities that escape heteronormative categorizations, asserting their gender through a performance that gestures to a major fluidity between gender positions. …”
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Robert Wise’s <i>The Day the Earth Stood Still</i> (1951) and Interplanetary Emissary Klaatu Are <i>Not</i> Anti-Atomic: A Reassessment of the Filmic Evidence
Published 2021-09-01“…Overall, this SF film is strongly pro-nuclear in intention, word, and deed, which was frequently misinterpreted due to faulty film criticism, invented facts, and jumping to conclusions, and thus in need of academic correction. …”
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<b>The social in scene in significant materiality</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i2.11759
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“The Dude Abides”: How "The Big Lebowski" Bowled Its Way from a Box Office Bomb to Nation-Wide Fests
Published 2012-12-01“…Yet, since its 1998 DVD release, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the Internet, continuously inspiring versatile cultural phenomena as nonconformist in their nature as the movie itself. …”
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Camping it out in the Never Never: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994)
“…The critical and popular success of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) helped to put the Australian film industry on the world map and made Stephan Elliott’s feature a cult film in its own right. …”
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But what doandroids feel about electric sheep? Educating about emotion-related constructs with "Blade Runner"
Published 2022-12-01“…The article addresses issues surrounding emotion regulation inthe cult film Blade Runner. The emotional development of the replicants isanalyzed regarding social conditions and the stigma associated with functioning in an ultra- c apitalist dystopia. …”
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Il territorio delle Lipari tra ambiente, cinema e turismo / The territory of Lipari between environment, cinema and tourism
Published 2016-05-01“…Questi cult passarono alla storia del cinema come la guerra dei vulcani. …”
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THE WORLD OF "THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD"
Published 2014-04-01“…This film which constitutes the research material for this article was made in 1982 and became a cult classic by the end of the nineties because of it’s comprehensive deficencies. …”
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Myra Breckinridge et le passager clandestin. Kitsch, camp et inconscient hollywoodien
“…It was later rehabilitated as a cult movie thanks to a cultural reevaluation which has considered this narrative experimentation as a pioneering camp film of mainstream culture. …”
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Sorcerer: William Friedkin and the New Hollywood
Published 2022“…However, within recent years, the film has emerged in the popular and scholarly consciousness from enjoying a minor, cult status to becoming subject to a full-blown critical reconsideration in which it has been praised a major work by a key American filmmaker.…”
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Blade runner - future visuals.
Published 2010“…I decided to base my project on cult science fiction film Blade Runner because of its visually driven narrative and unique art direction style, which was ahead of its time and inspired many other groundbreaking Science Fiction films. …”
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Screaming through the century: The female voice as cathartic/transformative force, from Berg's Lulu to Tykwer's Run Lola Run
Published 2006-08-01“…By contrast, Tykwer's film is an end-of-millennium "art-house" film that, on its release, quickly became a cult movie in Germany and beyond; fast-paced, visually and technically innovative, and backed by a driving techno soundtrack, its resonances with many aspects of video games and hypermedia position it as a text that heralds the twenty-first century. …”
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Staging division: power, violence, and theatricality in The Baby of Mâcon
Published 2024-12-01“…In the process, not only does this essay advance a new perspective on the film’s complex structure and on the themes of corporeality and sacrificial violence and their place in Greenaway’s work, it also demonstrates the relevance of an ontologized concept of “staging” for reading this unique cult director’s political films.…”
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THE WORLD OF "THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD
Published 2014-04-01“…This film which constitutes the research material for this article was made in 1982 and became a cult classic by the end of the nineties because of it’s comprehensive deficencies. …”
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Spectacular Tentacular: Transmedial Tentacles and Their Hegemonic Struggles in Cthulhu and Godzilla
Published 2020-11-01“…Tentacular cephalopods appear regularly in film. Inspired by Hugo and Hokusai, stories of ferocious octopus attacking primates were invented. …”
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Music, Magic, and the Mythic: The Dynamics of Visual and Aural Discourse in Souleymane Cissé’s Yeelen
Published 2012-11-01“…However, some critics argued that these films exoticised Africa, while their use of oral performance’s distancing effect echoed the ‘scientific’ distance structured by the ethnographic film, in which African societies were represented as ‘the other’. …”
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Revenge and Remake: Meir Zarchi's Day of the Woman and Steven Monroe's I Spit on Your Grave
Published 2011-12-01“…Appalled reviewers and its inclusion in the 1983 British list of "video nasties" earned the film a cult status that gave rise to a 2010 remake of what had been described as "an extraordinarily difficult film to watch" (Clover 115). …”
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Footprints: Between indicative persistance and uncertainty
Published 2016-10-01“…In his well-known essay "The Work of Art in Its Age of Mechanical Reproduction", written in 1936, Walter Benjamin binds the decisive and radical transformation of the XIXth Century art theory with the transition experienced by the images (of art) from cult to exhibition value (Benjamin, 2008). This alteration would have been managed by the historical apparition of photography and film as modes of production and reproduction of images. …”
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