The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema by Ernest Mathijs Paperback Book

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This book offers an overview of the field of cult cinema – films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status mostly because they break rules, offend and challenge understandings of achievement (some are so bad they're good, others so good they remain inaccessible)

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The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema – films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status mostly because they break rules, offend, and challenge understandings of achievement (some are so bad they're good, others so good they remain inaccessible).Cult cinema is no longer only comprised of the midnight movie or the extreme genre film. Its range has widened and the issues it broaches have become battlegrounds in cultural debates that typify the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Sections are introduced with the major theoretical frameworks, philosophical inspirations, and methodologies for studying cult films, with individual chapters excavating the most salient criticism of how the field impacts cultural discourse at large. Case studies include the worst films ever; exploitation films; genre cinema; multiple media formats cult cinema is expressed through; issues of cultural, national, and gender representations; elements of the production culture of cult cinema; and, throughout, aspects of the aesthetics of cult cinema – its genre, style, look, impact, and ability to yank viewers out of their comfort zones. The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema goes beyond the traditional scope of Anglophone and North American cinema by including case studies of East and South Asia, continental Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, making it an innovative and important resource for researchers and students alike.

Author Biography

Ernest Mathijs is Professor of Film Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He teaches and writes on cult cinema. With Jamie Sexton he has written Cult Cinema (2011). He is the co-author of 100 Cult Films and the author of The Cinema of David Cronenberg. Jamie Sexton is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Northumbria University, UK. He is author of Cultographies: Stranger Than Paradise (2018) and co-author with Ernest Mathijs of Cult Cinema (2011). He is currently writing a monograph on American independent cinema and indie music cultures.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Cult Cinema Studies ExperiencePART I: GENRES AND CYCLESGenres, Cycles and Modes'Naughty', 'Nasty', 'Culty': Exploitation Film – Ernest MathijsUnderground Film and Cult Cinema – Glyn DavisCult-Art Cinema: Defining Cult-Art Ambivalence – David Andrews"It happens by accident": Failed Intentions, Incompetence, and Sincerity in Badfilm – Becky BartlettCult Horror Cinema – Steffen HantkeCult Science Fiction Cinema – Mark BouldCult Comedy Cinema – Seth SoulsteinThe Italian Giallo – Alexia KannasPART II: GLOBAL AND LOCAL CULT CINEMAGlobal and Local Cult CinemaLatsploitation – Dolores TierneyIranian Cult Cinema - Babak Tabarraee Rebels Without a Cause: The Bombay Cult Film – Vibhushan SubbaEast Asian Cult Cinema – Robyn CitizenAnime Is (Not) Cult: Gainax and the Limits of Cult Cinema – Rayna DennisonBlaxploitation – Harry M. BenshoffPART III: CRITICAL CONCEPTSCritical ConceptsCult Cinema and Gender – Brenda Austin-SmithCult Cinema and Nostalgia – Renee MiddlemostOc/cult Film and Video – Anna Powell"It's like looking at your past crimes at a parole hearing": Transgression in Cult Cinema– Tom WatsonAccess All Areas? Anglo-American Film Censorship and Cult Cinema in the Digital Era – Emma PettCult Cinema and Camp – Julia MendenhallPART IV: EXHIBITION, DISTRIBUTIONCult Film Distribution and Exhibition Midnight Movies- Carter MoultonDrive-in and Grindhouse Theaters – David ChurchBlood cults: historicising the North American "shot on video" horror movie – Johnny WalkerCult Cinema in the Digital Age – Iain Robert SmithCult Cinema and Film Festivals – Russ HunterPART V: FANDOMCult FandomConventions and Cosplay – Lynn ZuberbnisGrown Woman Shit: A Case for Magic Mike XXL as Cult Text – Amanda Anna KleinThe Cut between Us: Digital Remix and the Expression of Self– Jennifer Ng The Professionalised Fandom of Careers in Cult: "Passionate Work" within Academia and Industry – Matt Hills PART VI: MUSIC AND SOUNDSound and Music in Cult FilmCult Musicals – Ethan de SeifeCult Soundtracks (Music) – James WierzbickiSounding out cult cinema: the 'bad', the 'weird' and the 'old' – Nessa JohnstonPART VII: AESTHETICS AND INTERMEDIALITYCult Film AestheticsInside an Actor's Scrapbook. Heath Ledger's Aesthetic Practice of Unbalancing– Jörg SternagelSpecial Effects and the Cult Film: Cult Film Production and Analogue Nostalgia on the Digital Effects Pipeline – Leon GurevitchProduction Play: Sets, Props, and Costumes in Cult Films – Tamao NakaharaCult Film and Adaptation – I.Q. HunterCult Film – Cult Television – Stacey AbbottPART VIII: AUTEURSCult Auteurs"It's a strange world": David Lynch – Jeffrey Weinstock"You guys always bring me the very best violence": Making the Case for Joss Whedon's The Avengers and Serenity as Mainstream Cult – Erin GianniniAnti-Auteur: The Films of Roberta Findlay – Alexandra Heller-NicholasAnna Biller – Jennifer O'MearaAlejandro Jodorowsky and El Topo – Antonio Lazaro-RebollPART IX: ACTORSCult Cinema ActingJudy Garland – Steven CohanFrom the Other Side of the Wind: Dennis Hopper – Adrian MartinBarbara Steele – Nia Edwards-BehiBruce Lee: Cult (Film) Icon– Paul BowmanAll He Needs Is Love: The Cult of Klaus Kinski – Ian CooperCrispin Glover – Sarah Thomas

Details ISBN1032084200 Pages 520 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 1032084200 ISBN-13 9781032084206 Publication Date 2021-06-30 UK Release Date 2021-06-30 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-06-30 NZ Release Date 2021-06-30 Series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions Author Jamie Sexton Edited by Jamie Sexton Alternative 9781138950276 DEWEY 791.43653 Illustrations 32 Illustrations, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Imprint Routledge We've got this

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