Dying for a Laugh Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination

Name: Dying for a Laugh Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination
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ISBN: 9780819567925

ISBN-10: 0819567922

ISBN-13: 9780819567925

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ken Feil

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Dying for a Laugh looks at the evolution of the contemporary disaster film from the 1970s to the present. Ken Feil argues that contemporary camp culture has influenced and reformed the conventions of the 1970s disaster film, in both its production and reception. The book chronicles how the genre rose to prominence, sank into critical and popular disrepute, and became unintentionally campy. Through close readings of films including The Poseidon Adventure, The Swarm, Ghostbusters, Independence Day, and Mars Attacks!, along with film reviews, entertainment reports and publicity materials as evidence, Feil shows that the renewal of the disaster genre in the 1990s hinged on self-parody, ironic…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 1/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.29" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Tables and Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Recipes for Disaster: The Rise and Fall of the 1970s Disaster Movie


From Disaster Parody to Parodic Disaster: Gremlins, Ghostbusters and the Development of High Concept Camp


Queering the Wreckage and Straightening Up: Camp, Stereotyping and the Late 1990s Disaster Cycle


"The Movie Is Awful": Mars Attacks! and the Limits of High Concept Camp


From Camp to Kitsch: 9/11, Taste, and the Imagination of Disaster


Conclusion: Campy Disaster, Comic Book Movies, and The Day After Tomorrow


Appendix: Camp Theory


Notes


Bibliography


Index