{"id":3574,"date":"2020-04-24T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2020-04-28T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T09:06:44","slug":"james-newton-provides-expert-comment-on-cult-classic-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/04\/24\/james-newton-provides-expert-comment-on-cult-classic-films\/","title":{"rendered":"James Newton provides expert comment on cult classic films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/2149\/newton-james\">Dr James Newton<\/a>, Lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/subjects\/media-studies\">Media Studies<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\">School of Arts<\/a>, has written on cult classic films for anyone currently exploring the world of cinema during lockdown, or looking to catch up on classic films they may have missed.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, James recommends his top six cult classic films. James says: \u2018the phrase &#8220;cult film&#8221; is notoriously imprecise, and can be employed to refer to a wide range of very different films from very different contexts.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He explains that &#8216;cult&#8217; can be used as a descriptor for a variety of films, including those that are dismissed by critics but are celebrated by audiences as &#8216;trashy fun&#8217;, as well as films that are offbeat or campy, or didn&#8217;t originally achieve much critical or commercial success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The films I suggest tend to appear less commonly (or at least lower down in the running order) on lists of &#8220;top cult films&#8221;\u2019, explains James. &#8216;They are stylistically and thematically diverse, and are terrifically entertaining examples of not just \u2018cult\u2019 cinema, but the art of film in general&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Read James&#8217; recommendations on the Kent news page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/culture\/25177\/cult-films-an-experts-recommendations\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/culture\/25177\/cult-films-an-experts-recommendations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr James Newton, Lecturer in Media Studies in the School of Arts, has written on cult classic films for anyone currently exploring the world of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/04\/24\/james-newton-provides-expert-comment-on-cult-classic-films\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,168423,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}