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Audience research notes: cult movies



Students wishing to report on cult audiences may be able to track research for element 2 from these three areas and, by combining a quantity of accounts alongside a number of sought out qualitative interviews, draw some speculative conclusions about audiences for cult. Suggestion: read reviews and websites devoted to certain films and make a count on fan comments. Collect this data as your student research.Aim to collect and analyze 25 feedback remarks

fan practices:

- generically determined organizations - conferences
 * websites

"most died at the box office, some of them horribly. Mangled and despised, they were re-animated on video. And now they compose our cultural Esperanto, a subliminal vocabulary of vaguely subversive images, ideas, and phrases that we continue to obsess over and dissect at parties, around watercoolers, in bars, over the blaring banalities of the mainstream media din. They are Cult Movies...So if you take your dead evil and your buckaroos banzai-ed, pour yourself a tall glass of Kool-Aid and peruse this list complete with signature lines and a near Talmudic trove of trivia."


 * 1) websites. [|__http://www.filmsite.org/cultfilmsew.html__]

Top 10 > "It's such a fine line between stupid...and clever." > "He died in a tragic gardening accident... Authorities said... it's best to leave it... unsolved." > "Hi, my name is Brad Majors..." (Asshole!) "...this is my fiancee, Janet Weiss." (Slut!) > "Gobble gobble, gobble gobble... We accept her... One of us, one of us..." > Harold: "You sure have a way with people." > Maude: "Well, they're my species!" > "Filth are my politics! Filth is my life." > "Hey, Grampa, we're gonna let you have this one!" > "Let's go get sushi and not pay!" > "Shay 'jello to my wittle vrend!" > "Wake up. Time to die." > "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'." > "Hwayiii!" > "All you of Earth are IDIOTS!" > "Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future." > "That is your receipt for your husband...and this is my receipt for your receipt." > (A pervasive hiss of unsettling white noise.) > "Honey, we don't like nothing soft. Everything we touch is hard." > "Warriors come out to plaaay." or > "Can...you...dig it?" > "That's what I love about these high school girls, man: I get older, they stay the same age."
 * 1) Stephanie. How many of these films have you seen? A 8
 * 2) **This Is Spinal Tap (1984)**
 * 1) **The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)**
 * 1) **Freaks (1932)**
 * 1) **Harold and Maude (1971)**
 * 1) **Pink Flamingos (1972)**
 * 1) **The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)**
 * 1) **Repo Man (1984)**
 * 1) **Scarface (1983)**
 * 1) [[image:http://newmedia-senior.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="pastedGraphic.pdf"]] [|__**Blade Runner**__]
 * 1) [[image:http://newmedia-senior.wikispaces.com/site/embedthumbnail/placeholder?w=200&h=50 width="200" height="50" caption="pastedGraphic_1.pdf"]] [|__**The Shawshank Redemption (1994)**__]
 * 1) **Five Deadly Venoms (1978)**
 * 1) **Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)**
 * 1) [|__**Brazil (1985)**__]
 * 1) **Eraserhead (1977)**
 * 1) **Faster, Pussy-Cat! Kill! Kill! (1966)**
 * 1) **The Warriors (1979)**
 * 1) **Dazed and Confused (1993)**