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The transgressive nature of cult films can lead to their censorship. During the 1970s and early 1980s, a wave of explicit, graphic exploitation films caused controversy. Called "video nasties" within the UK, they ignited calls for censorship and stricter laws on home video releases, which were largely unregulated.
May 28, 2023 · The Appeal of the Underdog. One primary psychological aspect that draws viewers to cult films is the psychological phenomenon known as the “underdog effect.” These films, often being...
Cult films are often strange, offbeat, or supposedly “transgressive” in content, in addition to sometimes being (intentionally or not) aberrant or challenging in form.
Jan 25, 2021 · No overview of the history of cult movies would be complete without Freaks, which is not the first horror or cult movie ever made but still feels like the primal scene of a cinema defined...
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Apr 12, 2024 · It is also common for cult film fans to travel to conventions or film festivals focused on particular films or groups of films. Cult films are usually regarded as transgressive and/or oppositional to mainstream taste.
How oppositional can cult cinema be if transgression is applied to all cult films, when transgression then becomes the norm? The following unpicks the semantic nuances between these terms to explore such a question.
Feb 22, 2018 · Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik, two of the leading scholars of cult film, suggest that these films are unified by their shared transgression of “common notions of good and bad taste.” Other scholars and historians, such as Umberto Eco, suggest that that for a film to earn cult status, it must merely have “some archetypal appeal.”
