Reading Rocky Horror; The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture.pdf

Reading Rocky Horror

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Reading Rocky Horror

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

and Popular Culture

Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

READING ROCKY HORROR

First published in 2008 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United

States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York,

NY 10010.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the

world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills,

Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.

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and has companies and representatives throughout the world.

Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States,

the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

ISBN-13: 978-0-230-61232-7

ISBN-10: 0-230-61232-6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reading Rocky Horror : The Rocky Horror Picture Show and popular

culture / edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-230-61232-6 (alk. paper)

1. Rocky Horror picture show (Motion picture) I. Weinstock, Jeffrey

Andrew.

PN1997.R57543R43 2009

791.43’72—dc22

2008019902

A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.

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First edition: December 2008

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Printed in the United States of America.