The Rough Guide to Cult Movies

"The Rough Guide to Cult Movies" offers a blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. Whether you're a paid-up member of The Big Lebowski fan club or just looking for a night in with an interesting DVD, "The Rough Guide to Cult Movies" is the ultimate guide to the world's most memorable films. "The Rough Guide to Cult Movies" selects cinema's most compelling triumphs: films that are brilliant, intriguing or just plain bizarre; from action flicks to zombie films, by way of nuns, yakuza, musicals and mutations. You'll find expert, pithy reviews of over 1500 movies, with forgotten legends like Charlie Chan and the Opera or contemporary classics like "There Will Be Blood", plus filmmakers' picks of their favourite cult movies, in their own words. There are good movies and there are bad movies and then there are cult movies.

ISBN 1848362137   Pages 448 ISBN13 9781848362130 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 344 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Rough Guides Ltd   Previous ISBN 9781843533849 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 181 Publication date 02 Aug 2010   Width (mm) 132 DEWEY 791.4375   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		Introduction
		Colour section
		Action		1
		Actor's lapses		4
		Adventure		6
		Alcohol		9
		Animals		13
		Animated		14
		Anime		19
		Apocalypse		22
		Art		24
		Asian extreme		27
		B-Movies		30
		Bad Girls		35
		Banned		37
		Beaches		41
		Bikers		44
		Biopics		46
		Blaxploitation		49
		Bollywood		52
		Buddy		54
		Business		57
		Cars		60
		Chick flicks		63
		Circus		67
		Comedies		69
		Coming of age		77
		Cops		80
		Costume		84
		Courtroom		88
		Crime		91
		Cross-dressing		98
		Cult studios		100
		Culture clash		102
		Cut		104
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