MSTU1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Surface Detail, Filmophile, Shared Experience
MSTU Week 9 Lecture
Politics of disgust:
• Will Truman – palatable homosexuality
• Divine – filth are my politics
• Not all cult films are bad – Rocky Horror, the Room, sound of music, big Lebowski
Defining the cult film:
• Anatomy – transgression of moral, genre, technical/formal
• Political Economy: financial and physical conditions, marketing (Blair Witch)
• Consumption: the audience and reception (fandom), shared experience and response
• Cultural status: cult film fits a time or region
Fandoms and activity:
• Seen as the social other
• Excess of emotion
• Seen as inferior to typical response
• Reclaimed as a site of power
• Maps or patterns of affect
• Fan fiction – made relevant for their own lives
• Creating new meaning
• Slash fiction
Defining the cult film:
• What is the reason for it and the reception
• Countercultural attitude – against the mainstream
Cinephilia and Cult Devotion:
• Cinema as a temple of devotion
• Religious aspects of ‘cult’
• Creating a kind of shrine – ritualistic
• Cinephile
Taste:
• Socially and culturally constructed
• Disposition towards certain objects
• Break of ordinary perceptions
• Popular form appears to the sense – rejecting the human is rejecting what is generic
• Reflect on the form rather than the function
• Troy and Bec and LLB – House Rules – exercise in taste
• Good taste in film – applying of Bourdieu’s theories
• Intersection of avant-garde and cult (art-horror, mixing of revulsion and everything weird
and vibrant)
• Pushing the boundary of what is able to be shown
• Dream-fantasy space
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Document Summary
Politics of disgust: will truman palatable homosexuality, divine (cid:862)filth are my politics(cid:863, not all cult films are bad rocky horror, the room, sound of music, big lebowski. Defining the cult film: what is the reason for it and the reception, countercultural attitude against the mainstream. Cinephilia and cult devotion: cinema as a temple of devotion, religious aspects of cult", creating a kind of shrine ritualistic, cinephile. Intersection of avant-garde and cult (art-horror, mixing of revulsion and everything weird and vibrant: pushing the boundary of what is able to be shown, dream-fantasy space. Interested in surface detail se camper, to flaunt: exaggerating performance, transforming the surface style artificial construction. Gender performance and performance audience: rocky horror, rough social environment of enjoying the cinema, underground cinema as a party, talking back, cosplay forming of rituals. Invitation or even dare to throw in stuff become part of the film.
