Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination

by Ken Feil

First study of disaster movies through reception theory and queer theory.

Dying for a Laugh looks at the evolution of the contemporary disaster film from the 1970s to the present. Ken Feil argues that contemporary camp culture has influenced and reformed the conventions of the 1970s disaster film, in both its production and reception. The book chronicles how the genre rose to prominence, sank into critical and popular disrepute, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819567922
• ISBN13: 9780819567925
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher