CHAPTER 9 Journey to the Center of the fifties: The Cult of Banality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. PART I Introduction: Mapping the Cult
4. CHAPTER 1 Beyond All Reason: The Nature of the Cult 5
5. CHAPTER 2 After Midnight 18
6. CHAPTER 3 Film and the Culture of Cult 26
7. PART II The Classical Cult Film
8. CHAPTER 4 Casablanca and the Larcenous Cult Film 43
9. CHAPTER 5 Looking Both Ways in Casablanca 55
10. CHAPTER 6 Confessions of a Casablanca Cultist: An Enthusiast Meets the Myth and Its Flaws 66
11. CHAPTER 7 The Cult Send-Up: Beat the Devil or Goodbye, Casablanca 79
12. CHAPTER 8 The Star as Cult Icon: Judy Garland 90
13. PART III The Midnight Movie
14. CHAPTER 9 Journey to the Center of the fifties: The Cult of Banality 107
15. CHAPTER 10 Science Fiction Double Feature: Ideology in the Cult Film 122
16. CHAPTER 11 Midnight S/Excess: Cult Configurations of femininity" and the Perverse 138
17. CHAPTER 12 Don't Dream It: Performance and The Rocky Horror Picture Show 156
18. CHAPTER 13 Midnight Movies, 1980-198s: A Market Study 167
19. CHAPTER 14 Gnosticism and the Cult Film 187
20. A Selective Cult Film Bibliography 201
21. Notes on Contributors 205
22. Index 207