THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

Within just a few years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show grew from an oddball musical to a celebrated cinematic experience of midnight features and outrageous audience participation. This study tells the extraordinary story of the film from initial reception to eventual cult status. Uncovering the film’s non-conformist sexual politics and glam-rock attitude, this volume explores its emphasis on the theatrical body (tattooed, cross-gendered, flamboyant), and its defiant queering of cinema history.

January 2007
144 pages

978-1-905674-50-3 (pbk)

£10.00

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Jeffrey Weinstock is Assistant Professor of American literature and culture at Central Michigan University. He is the editor of Spectral America: Phantoms and the National Imagination (2004) and The Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch Controversies (2004).

'Part of Wallflower’s new pocket-size Cultographies series, this examination of what many regard as the ultimate cult film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, chronicles its making, from Richard O’Brien’s creation of the original Royal Court stage musical through to its emergence as a celebrated midnight feature, complete with audience participation and fancy dress ... Full of intriguing detail, it certainly sheds plenty of new light on the film, and will be a must for Picture Show obsessives.'
Howard Maxford, Film Review

'Wallflower’s pocket-proportioned dissections of cult flicks prove that size isn’t important. Favouring keen concision over bloated verbosity, these ‘Cultographies’ weave vigour into punchy brevity ... These are top-drawer textbooks ... The trio dish out a toned triple-punch of erudite passion, scrupulous study, theoretical heft and crap-cutting acuity.’ ****
Kevin Harley, Total Film 

'For those of you who never thought there was anything deeper to see in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I'd suggest giving this book a try. And even, or rather, especially for those who know the film by heart - this book might make you see it in a fresh, revealing light.' Megan O'Donnell, Drexel University, USA. To read the full review, click here.