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THE IMPACT of AUDIENCES in CULT FILMS of ASIAN and UNITED STATE Ls My Original Work THE IMPACT OF AUDIENCES IN CULT FILMS OF ASIAN AND UNITED STATE Boy Wen Chuen Bachelor of Applied Arts with Honours (Cinematography) 2018 UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK Grade: DECLARATION OF ORIGINAL WORK Pleas. I ; ~k (, ) Fi:lal Y. .. rPro)~ Report 0 llano... D PhD D This declaration is made on the _____ day of _____ _ _ 2018. Student's D eclaratio n : I BOY WEN CHUEN (51353) from FACULTY OF APPLIED AND CREATIVE ART hereby decla re that the work entJlied. THE IMPACT OF AUDIENCES IN CULT FILMS OF ASIAN AND UNITED STATE lS my original work. I have not copied from any other students· work or from any other SO urces except where due reference or acknowledgement is m ade explicitly in the text, nol' has a ny part bee n Wl'ltte n for me by a nother pe rson. 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[The Instrument 15 duly prepared by The Centre for AcademIC Informa tion ServIces] II THE IMPACT OF AUDIENCES IN CULT FILMS OF ASIAN AND UNITED STATE BOY WEN CHUEN This project is submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Applied Arts with Honours (Cinematography) Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK 2018 The project entitled “ The Impact Of Audiences In Cult Films Of Asian & United State ” was prepared by Boy Wen Chuen and submitted to the Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts in partial requirements for a Bachelor of Applied Arts with Honours (Cinematography). Received for examination by: ______________________ (Mr. Aliffazraie Bin Jali) Date: ______________________ !iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, I would like to say thank you to my parents, Mr Boy Ket See and Mrs Kong Kam Thai for always supports me especially in aspect of financial and encouragement. Thank you to my beloved parents. Next, I want to thank you my supervisor, Mr Aliffazraie Bin Jali for guide and encourage me to complete this thesis and also my final year short film. From the beginning when I writing for my thesis, Mr Aliffazraie always gives his professional opinions prudentially and patiently, until the end. Without him, I would not able to complete this thesis and the short film smoothly. Besides, also thank you for Ms Teo Miaw Lee also for gives her opinions and advices for me when on the making of the short film The Bitter Sweet Watermelon. Last but no least, thank you to all my coursemate and friends for sharing information, opinion and knowledge whenever need help. Not to forget, I really appreciate for the respondents in helping me to collect data and information. I will be always remember your kindness and be graceful to all who had contributed for completely my thesis, either directly or indirectly, thank you so much. !iv CONTENT FRONT TITLE Page DECLARATION OF ORIGINAL i- ii SV VALIDATION & SIGNATURE iii ACKNOWLWDGEMENT iv TABLE OF CONTENT v- vi LIST OF FIGURES vii ABSTRACT viii ABSTRAK ix CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background of Study 1- 3 1.1 Problem Statement 4- 6 1.2 Research Question 7 1.3 Research Objective 7 1.4 Purpose of Research 7 1.5 Conclusion 8 CHAPTER 2 : LITERATURE REVIEW 9 2.1 The Audiences & Cult Film of Asia & United State 10- 18 2.2 Conclusion 18- 19 !v CHAPTER 3 : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 20 3.1 Comparative Study 21 3.2 Case Study 21 3.3 Questionnaire 22 3.4 Conclusion 22 CHAPTER 4 : DATA ANALYSIS & FINDINGS 23 4.1 Film Analysis 24- 29 4.2 Collected Data Analysis 30- 31 4.2.1 Section A 32- 34 4.2.2 Section B 35- 37 4.2.3 Section C 38- 40 4.3 Conclusion 41 CHAPTER 5 : CONCLUSION 42 5.1 Conclusion 43- 44 REFERENCES 45 Books 45- 46 Journal 47- 50 Filmography 51- 55 !vi LIST OF FIGURES Lists Page Figure 1 : Respond for question 1 in section A 32 Figure 2 : Respond for question 2 in section A 32 Figure 3 : Respond for question 3 in section A 33 Figure 4 : Respond for question 4 in section A 34 Figure 5 : Respond for question 1 in section B 35 Figure 6 : Respond for question 2 in section B 36 Figure 7 : Respond for question 3 in section B 37 Figure 8 : Respond for question 1 in section C 38 Figure 9 : Respond for question 2 in section C 39 Figure 10 : Respond for question 3 in section C 40 !vii ABSTRACT The purpose of this thesis is study about the different of cult films between area Asia and United State. On this thesis, the researcher purposed to study the transformation and present situation of some cult films in Asia and United State. Besides, the researcher using several method such as comparative study, case study and questionnaire to collect the data on this thesis. May this thesis can be give some information on similar field about Asia and Western’s cult film in the future. !viii Abstrak Kajian ini adalah mengenai pembelajaran dan penyelidikan tentang pembezaan “cult film”dari kawasan Asia dan Amerika Syarikat. Dalam thesis ini, pengkaji bertujuan untuk mengaji perkembangan dan situasi kini di kawasan Asia dan Amerika Syarikat. Selain itu, pengkaji mengaplikasi beberapa kaedah kajian termasuklah cara kajian perbandingan,cara kajian kes-kes dan cara soal selidik untuk mengumpul data-data yang diperlukan untuk mengkaji. Berharap thesis ini dapat bagi maklumat-maklumat yang bernilai dalam sektor yang hampir sama tentang “cult film” di kawasan Asia dan Amerika Syarikat pada masa depan. !ix CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION !1 1.0 Background Of Study Quoted from Bruce A.Austin (p. 394), “ In summary, the cult film may be defined as a motion picture which is exhibited on a continuing basis, usually at midnight, and gathers a sizeable repeat audience.” A cult films are always builds based on the group of audiences, so it hard to make a final conclusion due to the difference of area comes, such as genre Kung-Fu from Hong Kong and genre Tokusatsu especially Godzilla series from Japan. Both genre was one of mainstream and success gain commercial profits on local area, but for Western area, it usually listed as a cult movie. In early days of cinema, cult films had been existed (Allen, 2007). At those time, it always come after with movement of avant-garde cinema and surrealism cinema, Un Chien Andalou (1929) directed by Luis Buñuel was one of the famous example. As mentioned by James Hoberman & Jonathan Rosenbaum on their book Midnight Movies (1983), the appearance of modern cult films were followed up with the popularisation of midnight theatre, drive- in theatre and television broadcasting since from 1970s. The development of cult films usually linkage with the underground cinema movement, counterculture movement and transgression art movement, paracinema and independent cinema, B-movie, exploitation cinema, pornographic cinema and Hollywood’s double feature system on 1940s until 1960s. Besides, the transgressive art movement from early 1980s had be inspired many filmmakers started to made some works which totally be sharply demarcated from mainstream works, many excellent cult classics were appeared on this period.
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