Cult pop culture : how the fringe became mainstream / Bob Batchelor, editor.

Other author Batchelor, Bob.
Format Book
Publication InfoSanta Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2012.
Description3 volumes ; 24 cm
Subjects
Popular culture--United States.
Subculture--United States.
National characteristics, American.

Contents V.1: Film and television. Film. Sexploitation cinema and the rise and fall of Russ Meyer / Adam G. Capitanio -- Swayze is America : Road house, Point break, and the cult/camp movie of the 1980s and 1990s / Bob Batchelor -- Midnight movies and the phenomenon of the cult film / Tomás F. Crowder-Taraborrelli -- Godfather of cult : The rocky horror picture show / Jeffrey C. Jackson -- Demagogues in death and notes from way underground : the American cult pop culture icon / Kristi M. Wilson -- Building a galaxy : George Lucas and the Star Wars empire / Lincoln Geraghty -- Lecter for President : or why we worship serial killers / Philip L. Simpson -- "Oh, hi humanity!" : a kaleidoscopic account of life in The room / Daniel Harmon -- Wes Anderson and the cult of hipster aesthetics / Bob Batchelor -- Television. Omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient : Oprah Winfrey's cult status / Carol-Ann Farkas -- What would Tony Soprano do? A cult of immorality / Deborah McLeod -- "If it sucks, it's your fault" : Joss Whedon and the empowerment of fans / Aaron Barlow -- Who killed Laura Palmer? Perhaps we all did : Twin Peaks and the American fascination with the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer / Brian Cogan -- Syndication of broadcast television programs / Carmen Stitt -- Fighting crime : CSI and Law & Order redefine TV / Donna Waller Harper -- We're all famous now : reality TV and the meaning of fame / Larry Z. Leslie -- How Family guy changes television forever / Jodee Hammond, Bob Batchelor -- It's funny because it's true : The office and our inner Michael / Joseph Darowski -- Doctor Who : a global cult phenomenon / Brian Cogan -- Reality TV and the new American family / Leigh H. Edwards.
Contents V.2: Literature and music. Literature. Getting to know you : book clubs as social practice / Kate Pantelides -- Tell me everything : the cult of the memoir / Taylor Joy Mitchell, Erin Trauth -- (De-) Constructions of masculinity in the Hemingway myth / Keith Cavedo -- When comic books become cool / Mike D'Agruma -- First rule of Fight club : young readers return to books / Morgan Shipley -- in a flash : the digital age's influence over literacy / Katherine Batchelor -- Music. Insatiable appetite for replication : cover bands / Michael Mooradian Lupro -- Elvis and the making of America / Shawn David Young -- Bob Dylan's selves / Nancy Bunge -- Parrotheads in paradise : Jimmy Buffett and the importance of "Margaritaville" / Michael J. Blouin -- Cash : " a walking contradiction" : Johnny R. Cash as a cult icon / Stephen Swanson -- What died in the 1980s should stay dead : the repeated rebirth of hair bands / Brian Cogan -- Morrissey : I need to be loved / Martha Asbury Young, Shawn David Young -- Do you remember the time when we fell in love? The impact of Michael Jackson, before and after / Johnson Cheu -- Notes from the underground : Hip Hop's invisible men / Natalie Graham -- Jesus freaks and countercultural music : from Niche to mainstream / Shawn David Young.
Contents V.3: Everyday cult. Cult industry. We all go a little nerdy sometimes : comic book conventions and the popularization of the unpopular / Kurt Fawver -- masterpiece in my attic : the changing role of antiques / Katherine Walker -- Boys and their toys : shifting lives and passions of a lifetime in the classic car cult / Ken Killebrew -- Events/places/things. I see dead people : the diversion of the paranormal in American culture / Emily Vosburg Pettigrew -- Aliens : Roswell, UFO's, and the power of the unexplained / Kim Murray -- Glamour conspiracy : what drives the cult of veneration for President Kennedy and Princess Diana / Salvador Jiminez Murguia -- Whose brand is it anyway? How brands become cults by becoming inclusive / Quentin Vieregge -- All in : gambling in modern America / Carla nocera Cherry -- Cult of cute : the Disney princesses and American girlhood / Bob Batchelor, Jodee Hammond -- Disappearing bookstore rat / Larry Z. Leslie -- Sports. Pageantry : dogs, kids, beauty queens, and spelling bees / Erin Trauth -- Bowling and caucasians : movies and the American theme party / Taylor Joy Mitchell -- Wait till next year : Boston, Chicago, and the mythology of failure / Josef Benson -- Internet. building communities online : the Dave Matthews band and Pearl Jam -- Real me : selfhood in the virtual world / Cary Gabriel Costello.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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