Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture

by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

The first scholarly collection devoted to  The Rocky Horror Picture Show,  dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.

Genres: LGBT, Nonfiction

255 pages, Hardcover

First published November 24, 2008

Reviews

[Srđan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating collection of scholarly articles which takes the RHPS quite seriously, and somewhat following the hybrid nature of the RH(P)S itself, presents different viewpoints and theories, ranging from queer and disability studies, film, folklore, capitalism and such. I found most of the articles interesting - if not enjoying - and well written, even though you can't really escape some repetition in 13 texts. The focus is on three fields, divided in chapters: genre, audience participation and sexuality. Note - although appealing to bookworm fans of RHPS, among them some of the authors themselves, not all presented voices are "Frankie's fans", and there's some sobering critical thoughts of the "Don't be it. Dream it" utopia, which - again - somehow correspond to RHPS complex messages.