Abstract
This chapter focuses on the depiction of America in Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! The America of Pussycat is portrayed as a modern desolate wasteland—with broken-down main streets, dust-covered trash heaps, empty beer cans, and the like—similar to that of a zombie movie imagined to be co-scripted by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Samuel Beckett. But unlike the modernist wastelands described in the works of Fitzgerald and Beckett, Pussycat's wasteland is neither a poetic ruin nor an abstraction, but a realistic backdrop of an outsized tale of sex and violence. The film's America is a place where the nascent rebellion of the 1950s has devolved into disposable pop culture, where rockabilly gives way to bubblegum pop, and Kerouac's mystical road has been reduced to a dirt circle in the desert.
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