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Download e-book for iPad: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Cultographies) by Dean DeFino

By Dean DeFino

ISBN-10: 0231167393

ISBN-13: 9780231167390

Russ Meyer's Faster, tom cat! Kill! Kill! (1965) is an enigma. A box-office failure whilst first and foremost published at the grindhouse circuit, it has when you consider that been embraced by way of art-house audiences, and referenced in numerous movies, tv sequence, and songs. A rebel of types and tale clichés lifted from biker, juvenile delinquency, and seashore occasion videos, it has the coherence of a dream, and the improvisatory bold of a jazz solo. John Waters has known as it the best motion picture ever made, and Quentin Tarantino has lengthy promised to remake it. yet what attracts them, and such a lot of different cult enthusiasts to feline? to aid solution that query, this e-book seems to be on the construction and important reception of the movie, its position in the cultural heritage of the Sixties, its representations of gender and sexuality, and the explicit methods it meets the standards of a cult film.

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