Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue: A Redeeming Feature 1. Deus ex Machina: The Sacred Projector 2. The Ass and the Angel: Raquel Welch vs. Richard Nixon Notes Credits

About the Author

Mark Kermode is a film critic and broadcaster. He writes for Sight and Sound and The Independent, and providing weekly film reviews for BBC Radio 5. On television he appears regularly on BBC 2's Newsnight Review, and has written and presented numerous film documentaries including The Fear of God; 25 Years of the Exorcist and Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing the French Connection for BBC1, and Hell on Earth; Resurrecting The Devils, The Cult of The Wicker Man and On the Edge of Blade Runner for Channel 4.