Making European cult cinema : fan enterprise in an alternative economy /

Fans of cult films don't just watch the movies they love-they frequently engage with them in other, more creative ways as well. Making European Cult Cinema explores the ways in which that fandom could be understood as an alternative economy of fan enterprise, through a close look at how fans pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: OLIVER CARTER
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] AMSTERDAM University PRE, 2018.
Temas:
Cult films > Europe.
Motion pictures > Europe.
Motion picture audiences > Europe.
Films cultes > Europe.
Cinéma > Publics > Europe.
Film theory and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cult films.
Motion picture audiences.
Motion pictures.
Europe.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Fancademia: A Limitation of Fan Studies?; Defining the fan; Choosing a direction; Celebrating fandom; Fan studies as fan production?; The structure of the book; 1. Fan Enterprise as an Alternative Economy; Fandom as an economy; Defining the 'alternative economy'; Fans as creative workers; Fan produced texts as exchangeable artefacts; Fans transgressing rules and regulations; Conclusion; 2. Researching an Alternative Economy; A (fan) ethnographic approach; A model for fan ethnography: 'Combined ethnography'; Using combined ethnography
  • Limitations and ethical considerationsConclusion; 3. Defining European Cult Cinema; Trash or cult?; What is European cult cinema?; The 'giallo'; Conclusion; 4. Historicizing the Alternative Economy of European Cult Cinema Fan Enterprise; The fanzines; The significance of VHS; The British horror fanzines; Media Communications: The first fan enterprise; Media Communications and the Fantom Kiler; Dark Publications: The second fan enterprise; FAB Press: The third fan enterprise; Conclusion: Diversifying production; 5. Sharing European Cult Cinema: Encouraging and Rewarding Fan Enterprise
  • Commercially releasing gialli on home videoWhat is CineTorrent?; Policies, rules and, regulations; Constructing an archive; The Giallo Project; The Giallo Project and user creativity; Conclusion: CineTorrent as a fan enterprise; 6. Informal Enterprises: Selling European Cult Cinema; The shop with the Crystal Plumage; Pronto! Giallo T-shirts; From 'supply and demand' to 'demand and supply'; Tough to Kill and Lulu; European cult T-shirts on Spreadshirt; Conclusion; Conclusion: Making Fandoms; From the alternative to the formal? Crowdfunding Eurocrime; Making European cult cinema
  • New directions for fan studiesBibliography; Index; List of Figures and Tables; Fig. 2.1: The 'combined ethnography model'; Fig. 4.1: The evolution of European Trash Cinema; Fig. 4.2: Front covers of Go Video releases of Cannibal Holocaust and SS Experiment Camp; Fig. 4.3: Fantom Kiler DVD cover; Fig. 4.4: The Fantom Kiler; Fig. 4.5: The Fantom Kiler sequels; Fig. 4.6: Issues one and three of Flesh and Blood; Fig. 4.7: Examples of FAB Press' publications; Fig. 5.1: DVD production costs; Fig. 5.2: Safe and unsafe content; Fig. 5.3: eBay advert for the fan DVD of Red Light Girls
  • Fig. 6.1: Examples of Daria's t-shirt designsFig. 6.2: Daria's Pronto! t-shirt design; Fig. 6.3: Examples of Jonny's Spreadshirt designs; Fig. 6.4: My Spreadshirt designs; Fig. 6.5: Spreadshirt's design guidelines; Fig. 7.1: Eurocrime Kickstarter page; Fig. 7.2: Incremental rewards for Kickstarter donations to the Eurocrime documentary; Fig. 7.3: Making fandom model

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