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"I was lucky to encounter
The Rocky Horror Picture Show early in life, when
my mother tracked the DVD down at our local video store so we could watch it
together from the comfort of our apartment.
My initial experience lacked some of the context and traditions which, over the
last 50 years, have cemented
Rocky Horror’s status as the quintessential cult
film.
Ironically, in my mother’s case, introducing her child to
Rocky Horror
required her to remove it from the very setting which gave the film its social
significance in the first place: the movie theatre.
While “cult cinema” remains a somewhat nebulous categorization, scholarship
consistently ties the term directly to the social situation of audiences
receiving films. For cult cinema studies vanguards like Danny Peary, a movie
doesn’t achieve cult status by simply inspiring a collective fan base. A cult
film is born through ritualistic traditions of audience attendance that must
occur in a public, social screening setting like a movie theatre.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show — the Hollywood-funded screen adaptation of Jim
Sharman and Richard O’Brien’s successful British stage musical — owes its cult
success to independent, repertory cinemas."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
