Russ Meyer and Me
Russ Meyer and Me
This introductory chapter presents and analyses a review of Russ Meyer's masterpiece film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and relates it to other cult films. In the opening of the film, Meyer introduces the key motifs of the film: the primal relationship between sex and violence, the castration anxiety that undergirds male desire, and the tenuous relationship between female subjectivity and objectification. In addition, the audience's ritual invocation of dialogue and facsimiles of characters' costumes transform its inherent banalities into the elements of a primal ceremony. These aspects—the “Eureka!” moment of discovery where the cult object seems to reveal its apparently mystical power—are key components of many cult films.
Keywords: Russ Meyer, sex and violence, cult films, ritual invocation, primal ceremony, cult object
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