Reading Rocky Horror The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is undeniably the world's most famous "cult film," yet it has received very little scrutiny or consideration from scholars. Reading Rocky Horror is the first edited collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and makes up for academia's neglect of this cult classic by assembling a variety of accessible contributions that examine the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of English Literature and Languages at Central Michigan University, USA. In 2013, he received the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Lord Ruthven Assembly Award for Best Nonfiction Title for The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema and is the author or editor of over fifteen books. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Introduction: It's Just a Jump to the Left: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
PART I: ROCKY HORROR AND GENRE
1. "Drinking Those Moments When": The Use (and Abuse) of Late-Night Double Feature Science Fiction and Hollywood Icons in The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Sue Matheson
2. Rocky Horror Glam Rock; Julian Cornell
3. Reflections on the Self-reflexive Musical: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Classic Hollywood Musical; Sarah Artt
PART II: ROCKY HORROR AND CINEMA SPECTATORSHIP
4. Heavy, Dark, and Pendulous: Unsuturing Rocky Horror; Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
5. Mocking the Mirror: Film Spectatorship as Hyperreal Simulation; Heather C. Levy and Matthew A. Levy
6. Wild and Untamed Thing: The Exotic, Erotic, and Neurotic Rocky Horror Performance Cult; Michael M. Chemers
7. "What We Are Watching" Does Not Present "Us with a Struggle": Rocky Horror, Queer Viewers, and the Alternative Cinematic Spectacle; Nicole Seymour
8. "Don't Dream It, Be It": Cultural Performance and Communitas at The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Liz Locke
9. The Cult and Its Virgin Sacrifice: Rites of Defloration in and at The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Kristina Watkins-Mormino
PART III: ROCKY HORROR AND SEXUALITY
10. In Search of the Authentic Queer Epiphany: Normativity and Representations of the Queer Disabled Body in Rocky Horror; Ben Hixon
11. The Queer Pedagogy of Dr. Frank-N-Furter; Zachary Lamm
12. "Be Just and Fear Not": Warring Visions of Righteous Decadence and Pragmatic Justice in Rocky Horror; Thomas G. Endres
13. "Your Lifestyle's Too Extreme": Rocky Horror, Shock Treatment, and Late Capitalism; Kevin John Bozelka