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Road to Nowhere: Mad Max: Fury Road and the Unstoppable Safe Transgressions of Cult Cinema

June 11, 2015
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Road to Nowhere: <i>Mad Max: Fury Road</i> and the Unstoppable Safe Transgressions of Cult Cinema

Against orthodox thought that cult films earn their status through lengthy reception trajectories, Mad Max: Fury Road is always already a cult film.
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The Deanna Durbin Cult

May 7, 2013
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The Deanna Durbin Cult

The figure of the recently passed Deanna Durbin (1921-2013) is fascinating today because of how it embodies a sensibility within stardom: the cult of the child star.
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