Postmodernism Of The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 1065 Words

Sink 1 Daniel Sink Foster ENG 195 1 November 2016 Postmodernism of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) The Rocky Horror Picture Show , directed by Jim Chapman, is a campy comedy musical set in a horror and science fiction themed castle in which sexuality and hilarity run rampant. The film, closely based on a stage production, hit theaters in 1975 and continued to rule the midnight film scene, becoming a cult-classic. By using homage and allusion to science fiction and horror B-films, lambasting sexual identity and gender normality, and employing a self-referential universe, The Rocky Horror Picture Show stands as a strong representation of 1970 s postmodernism in film. The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens with the, now iconic, disembodied set of red lips singing â€Å"Science Fiction/Double Feature†. The song is a nostalgia-trip through time as it references everything thing from Flash Gordon s underwear to reminding us who stars in Forbidden Planet. The setting of the film its self is a spooky manor and set piece that is alm ost identical to the sets from Hammer Film Productions such as The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957) and the remake of The Old Dark House (William Castle, 1963). When we first meet Dr. Frankenfurter, he suggests that all characters (and audience) â€Å"take in an old Steve Reeves movie† and by the films climax Frankenfurter is dressed like burlesque queen Lili St. Cyr and being carried up an RKO radio tower, much like Fay Wray beingShow MoreRelatedThe Genre Of Cult Film1741 Words   |  7 Pagesand my investigation will look into ways we are able to clarify the vast genre of cult film. Speculated by theorists such as Sconce, Jancovich and many others, cult film is one of the most diverse and ambiguous genres of the past 60 years in motion picture history. Beginning in the 1950s with unconventional flicks like Plan 9 from Outer Space and The Blob, cult film as a ‘quasi-genre’ began to not only reject one set of stylistic conventions, but also started t o expand into various sub-genres that itRead MoreOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pagesthe case with the present book. This is a book that deserves to achieve a wide readership. Professor Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University, UK This new textbook usefully situates organization theory within the scholarly debates on modernism and postmodernism, and provides an advanced introduction to the heterogeneous study of organizations, including chapters on phenomenology, critical theory and psychoanalysis. Like all good textbooks, the book is accessible, well researched and readers are encouragedRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesrecognize, albeit more gradually, a second threat to global survival in the last years of the century—accelerated climate change brought on by the release of ever-increasing, polluting emissions into the earth’s atmosphere. But, as Richard Tucker shows, this ultimate peril comprises only one of the many strands of environmental degradation that have, in their intensity and cumulative repercussions, set the world history of the twentieth century off from all previous phases of the human experience