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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, "the cult film par excellence," which ran continuously at the same Paris movie house from 1920 through 1927. --page 23.

Midnight Movies is a 1983 film history book by J. Hoberman (who writes for the Village Voice) and Jonathan Rosenbaum (who writes for the Chicago Reader). The collecion of essay documents the midnight movie phenomenon (films unfit for mainstream consumption so they are shown at midnight). One of the essays Also documents the earliest cases of film cults in Paris and the United States. Highly recommended.

Chapters on the early careers of David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Waters and George Romero.

References to Émile Durkheim and Parker Tyler in the second chapter Cults, Fetishes and Freaks: Sex and Salvation at the Movies.

See also: cult films

Sources

  • Hoberman, J., and Jonathan Rosenbaum (1983). Midnight Movies (New York: Da Capo Press). ISBN 0-306-80433-6




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