Cult Film Stardom [electronic resource] : Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification /
Egan, K.editor.
Thomas, S.editor.
The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection explores the processes through which film stars/actors become associated with the cult label, from Bill Murray to Ruth Gordon and Ingrid Pitt.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Star-Making, Cult-Making and Forms of Authenticity; Part I Connecting 'Cult' and 'Stardom'; 1 Cult Movies With and Without Cult Stars: Differentiating Discourses of Stardom; 2 'Marginal moments of spectacle': Character Actors, Cult Stardom and Hollywood Cinema; Part II Cult Stardom and the Mainstream: Management, Mediation and Negotiation; 3 'You're Bill Groundhog-Day-Ghostbusting-Ass Murray': 'Mainstream' Success, Star Agency and Cult Reinvention
4 Prisoner of Cool: Chloë Sevigny, Alternative Stardom and Image Management5 From Behind the Masks to Inside: Acting, Authenticity and the Star Wars Co-Stars; Part III Directors, Reputations and Cult Acting; 6 Vincent Price and Cult Performance: The Case of Witchfinder General; 7 Hal Hartley's 'Look-out-Martin-Donovan's-in-the-house!' Shot: The Transformative Cult Indie Star-Director Relationship and Performance 'Idiolect'; 8 Cronenberg Connected: Cameo Acting, Cult Stardom and Supertexts; 9 Low-Flying Stars: Cult Stardom in Mumblecore; Part IV Cult Identities: Gender, Bodies and Otherness
10 Damaged Beauty: Montgomery Clift, Tragedy and the Redefinition of a Star Image11 Forever Emmanuelle: Sylvia Kristel and Soft-Core Cult Stardom; 12 A Real Horror Star: Articulating the Extreme Authenticity of Ingrid Pitt; 13 'You're Really a Miniature Bond': Weng Weng and the Transnational Dimensions of Cult Film Stardom; Part V Cult Stardom in Context: Connoisseurship and Film Criticism; 14 'The Screen's Number One and Number Two Bogeymen': The Critical Reception of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the 1930s and 1940s
15 Cult Connoisseurship and American Female Stars in the Sixties: Valuing a Few Withered Tits in the Midst of a 'Mammary Renaissance'Index
Includes bibliographical references.
The term 'cult film star' has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, but what makes cult stars distinct from other film stars has rarely been addressed. This collection explores the processes through which film stars/actors become associated with the cult label, from Bill Murray to Ruth Gordon and Ingrid Pitt.
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