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• W939093604 abstract "In contemporary cult film scholarship, the experiences of cult fans are too oftensubject to scholarly speculation rather than empirical observation, and tend to belimited to certain kinds of audience responses - deviant, rebellious, subversive. Evenin instances where actual cult fans have been considered at all, scholars have largelyproduced synchronic snapshots rather than insights derived from sustainedprogrammes of audience research. This study focuses on a faction of the increasinglyvisible cult following which has emerged in recent years around the British film TheWicker Man. Drawing on the personal testimonies of eight enduring fans of the film,I explicate and explore the range of experiences and complex processes involved inbecoming and remaining a fan of The Wicker Man.I develop an approach to cult film fandom which aims to provide an account of theorigins and evolution of a specific cult film formation. Combining textual analysiswith a rich body of ethnographic research I collected over eight years, I tease out thecomplexities of the film's initial import for these fans and proceed to examine howtheir relationships with the film develop over time. In the meantime, I engage with anumber of under-explored and uncharted concepts of cult which include issuesrelating to personal resonance, aesthetic experiences, affects, as well as the quasireligiousdimension.The main argument of the study is that the cult film experience can be perceived as aform of personal mythopoesis -a process which engages the individual in modes ofpersonal and collective mythmaking, and within which the integrity and coherence ofthe self is at stake. Drawing on theories in cognitive psychology and conceptsoriginating from within personal mythology, I develop an original model of cult fansubjectivity which foregrounds the self's preconscious and experiential dimensions.Demonstrating the significance of generational factors and cultural location, Ipropose to show how the respondents in my study share a preconscious dispositionto The Wicker Man.My study explicates and explores the relationship between cult film fandom and themythmaking process by focusing on three specific trajectories through which thefan-text relationships analysed here develop. The first explores the formativeexperiences of these fans, emphasising early cultural investments which shareaesthetic and thematic links with The Wicker Man and which predispose them to thefilm in a number of complex and fascinating ways. The second trajectory centres onthe fans' initial encounters with the film, paying close attention to the aestheticexperiences they undergo and proceeding to observe the trace manifestations of theseexperiences in subsequent fan practices beyond the viewing context. The finaltrajectory examines the ways in which the fans continue to interact with the film overtime, and discusses elements of their identities and experiences which uniquelyposition them in relation to The Wicker Man's dialectical treatment of myth. Theconclusion draws together the main findings of the study and considers therelationship between personal mythopoesis, cult fandom and the processes ofindividuation to argue for ways of understanding cult mythopocsis in terms of areligious process." @default.
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• W939093604 title "In the footsteps of 'The Wicker Man': personal mythopoesis and the processes of cult film fandom" @default.
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