Cult Media
eBook - PDF

Cult Media

Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored

  1. 227 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cult Media

Re-packaged, Re-released and Restored

About this book

This volume brings together writing on the topic of home media, and in particular releases described as appealing to 'cult' fans and audiences. Despite popular assumptions to the contrary, the distributors of physical media maintain a vivid presence in the digital age. Perhaps more so than any other category of film or media, this is especially the case with titles considered 'cult' and its related processes of distribution and exhibition. The chapters in this collection chart such uses and definitions of 'cult', ranging from home media re-releases to promotional events, film screenings, file-sharing and the exploitation of established fan communities. This book will be of interest to the ever-growing number of academics and research students that are specializing in studies of cult cinema and fan practices, as well as professionals (filmmakers, journalists, promoters) who are familiar with these types of films.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319636788
eBook ISBN
9783319636795
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Editors and Contributors
  3. List of Figures
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I The Cult Business: Creating Consumption
  6. Battle Royale as a One-Film Franchise: Charting a Commercial Phenomenon Through Cult DVD and Blu-ray Releases
  7. Whose Canon is it Anyway?: Subcultural Capital, Cultural Distinction and Value in High Art and Low Culture Film Distribution
  8. A “Cult-like” Following: Nordic Noir, Nordicana and Arrow Films’ Bridging of Subcultural/Neocultural Capital
  9. Restoration, Restoration, Restoration: Charting the Changing Appearance of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on British Home Video
  10. It’s Only Teenage Wasteland: The Home Media Revival of Freaks and Geeks
  11. Part II Cult Practices: The Consumption and Reception of Cult Media
  12. Cult Fandom and Experiential Cinema
  13. Pirates and Proprietary Rights: Perceptions of ‘Ownership’ and Media Objects Within Filesharing Communities
  14. On Vidding: The Home Media Archive and Vernacular Historiography
  15. The Dragon Lives Again: Distributing ‘Bruceploitation’ via Home Entertainment
  16. Bollywood DVD: The Relationship Between Distributive Technology and Content in Transnational Cinema
  17. The Sustained Popularity of In the Mood for Love: Cultural Consumption in Britain’s Reception Context
  18. Index

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