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Cult cinema an introduction / by Mathijs, Ernest

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Receptions and debates. Cult reception contexts -- The cult cinema marketplace -- Prestige, awards, and festivals -- Censorship and criticism -- Random and subculture -- The cult auteur -- Cult stardom -- Camp and paracinema -- Transgression and freakery -- Gender and sexuality -- Transnationalism and Orientalism -- Religion and utopia -- Themes and genres. …”
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Pindar and the cult of heroes by Currie, Bruno

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Some themes in hero cult, Homer and Pindar -- pt. 2. Heroization in the fifth century BC -- pt. 3. …”
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They live / by Wilson, D. Harlan

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Faster, pussycat! Kill! Kill! / by DeFino, Dean

Subjects: “…Cult films United States History and criticism.…”
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Lure of the arcane the literature of cult and conspiracy / by Ziolkowski, Theodore

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Desiring bodies Ovidian romance and the cult of form / by Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

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Theorizing art cinemas : foreign, cult, avant-garde, and beyond / by Andrews, David, 1970-

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Cinema Italiano the complete guide from classics to cult / by Hughes, Howard, 1971-

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Fame us celebrity impersonators and the cult(ure) of fame / by Howell, Brian

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Withnail and us cult films and film cults in British cinema / by Smith, Justin

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'Truly beyond wonders' Aelius Aristides and the cult of Asklepios / by Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia

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Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos / by Petrovic, Ivana

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The origin of American Black English be-forms in the HOODOO texts / by Ewers, Traute, 1960-

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True blood : investigating vampires and Southern Gothic /

“…Investigating cult TV.…”
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Investigating Farscape uncharted territories of sex and science fiction / by Battis, Jes, 1979-

“…Investigating cult TV.…”
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Investigating Firefly and Serenity science fiction on the frontier /

“…Investigating cult TV.…”
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When Broadway was the runway theater, fashion, and American culture / by Schweitzer, Marlis

Table of Contents: “…The octopus and the matinee girl -- The "department store theater" and the gendering of consumption -- "The cult of clothes" and the performance of class -- Fashioning the modern woman -- The theatrical fashion show on Broadway and Sixth Avenue.…”
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The death and afterlife of Achilles / by Burgess, Jonathan S., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The early life of Achilles -- The death of Achilles -- The destiny of Achilles in the Iliad -- Intertextuality and oral epic -- The death of Achilles in the Iliad -- Motif sequences in the Iliad -- Burial and afterlife of Achilles -- Tomb and cult of Achilles.…”
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Homeless dogs & melancholy apes humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination / by Brown, Laura, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Speculative space : the rise of the animal in the modern imagination -- Mirror scene : the orangutan, the ancients, and the cult of sensibility -- Immoderate love : the lady and the lapdog -- Violent intimacy : the monkey and the marriage plot -- Dog narrative : itinerancy, diversity, and the Elysium for dogs.…”
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Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides by Israelowich, Ido, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Aelius Aristides and the sacred tales -- Introduction -- The composition of the sacred tales -- Date of composition -- Method of composition -- Motives for composition -- The sacred tales as an autobiography -- The ancient readers of the sacred tales -- A narrative of redemption -- Society, disease and medicine in the sacred tales of Aristides -- Introduction -- The Graeco-Roman health-care system -- Towards a definition of a medical discourse -- Medicine in the Graeco-Roman world -- Roman medicine and its Greek influences -- Dreams -- The sick, medicine and physicians in the world of the sacred tales -- The place of the sick in society -- Medical discourse in the sacred tales -- The physicians in the sacred tales -- Towards a medical history of Aelius Aristides -- Falling ill -- Aristides and Asclepius -- Wider contexts -- Reconsidering private religions; religion and religious experience in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides -- Introduction -- Theology -- The myth of Asclepius -- Divination, oracles and dreams -- Dreams -- Oracles -- Visual culture and social forms of cult-organisation -- Cult, festivals and games -- The power of images.…”
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