Midnight movies
By: J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Contributors: Rosenbaum, Jonathan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row; Harper, 1983
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Motion picture plays -- History and criticism.; Motion pictures -- United States.
Description: These are a few of the over 100 films discussed in Midnight Movies, a comprehensive and in-depth look at the subculture movies of the past three decades. Here is the complete history of cult films, their makers, and their audience; an examination of how films become "midnight movies," and what keeps audiences coming back to see them over and over; an exploration of the connections between subversive film and the subcultures from which it emerges. Supplemented with a new afterward detailing the accommodation of midnight movies into the mainstream and speculating on the future of the genre, Midnight Movies is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and future of American cinema.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 321-327.
Includes index.