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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ernest Mathijs , Jamie SextonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 1.048kg ISBN: 9781138950276ISBN 10: 1138950270 Pages: 500 Publication Date: 02 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction: The Cult Cinema Studies Experience PART I: GENRES AND CYCLES Genres, Cycles, and Modes ‘Naughty’, ‘Nasty’, ‘Culty’: Exploitation Film – Ernest Mathijs Underground Film and Cult Cinema – Glyn Davis Cult-Art Cinema: Defining Cult-Art Ambivalence – David Andrews ""It happens by accident"": Failed Intentions, Incompetence, and Sincerity in Badfilm – Becky Bartlett Cult Horror Cinema – Steffen Hantke Cult Science Fiction Cinema – Mark Bould Cult Comedy Cinema and the Cultic, Comic Mode – Seth Soulstein The Italian Giallo – Alexia Kannas PART II: GLOBAL AND LOCAL CULT CINEMA Global and Local Cult Cinema Latsploitation – Dolores Tierney Iranian Cult Cinema - Babak Tabarraee Rebels Without a Cause: The Bombay Cult Film – Vibhushan Subba East Asian Cult Cinema – Robyn Citizen Anime Is (Not) Cult: Gainax and the Limits of Cult Cinema – Rayna Dennison Blaxploitation – Harry M. Benshoff PART III: CRITICAL CONCEPTS Critical Concepts Cult Cinema and Gender – Brenda Austin-Smith Cult Cinema and Nostalgia – Renee Middlemost Oc/cult Film and Video – Anna Powell Transgression in Cult Cinema– Thomas Joseph Watson Access All Areas? Anglo-American Film Censorship and Cult Cinema in the Digital Era – Emma Pett Cult Cinema and Camp – Julia Mendenhall PART IV: EXHIBITION, DISTRIBUTION Cult Film Distribution and Exhibition Midnight Movies- Carter Moulton Drive-in and Grindhouse Theaters – David Church Blood Cults: Historicising the North American ""shot on video"" horror movie – Johnny Walker Cult Cinema in the Digital Age – Iain Robert Smith Cult Cinema and Film Festivals – Russ Hunter PART V: FANDOM Cult Fandom Conventions and Cosplay – Lynn Zuberbnis Grown Woman Shit: A Case for Magic Mike XXL as Cult Text – Amanda Ann Klein The 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 SOUND Sound and Music in Cult Film Cult Musicals – Ethan de Seife Cult Soundtracks (Music) – James Wierzbicki Sounding Out Cult Cinema: The ‘Bad’, the ‘Weird’ and the ‘Old’ – Nessa Johnston PART VII: AESTHETICS AND INTERMEDIALITY Cult Film Aesthetics Inside an Actor's Scrapbook: Heath Ledger's Aesthetic Practice of Unbalancing– Jörg Sternagel Special Effects and the Cult Film: Cult Film Production and Analogue Nostalgia on the Digital Effects Pipeline – Leon Gurevitch Production Play: Sets, Props, and Costumes in Cult Films – Tamao Nakahara Cult Film and Adaptation – I.Q. Hunter Cult Film – Cult Television – Stacey Abbott PART VIII: AUTEURS Cult Auteurs ""It’s a strange world"": David Lynch – Jeffrey Andrew 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 Giannini Anti-Auteur: The Films of Roberta Findlay – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Anna Biller – Jennifer O’Meara Alejandro Jodorowsky and El Topo – Antonio Lazaro-Reboll PART IX: ACTORS Cult Cinema Acting Judy Garland – Steven Cohan From the Other Side of the Wind: Dennis Hopper – Adrian Martin Barbara Steele – Nia Edwards-Behi Bruce Lee: Cult (Film) Icon– Paul Bowman All He Needs Is Love: The Cult of Klaus Kinski – Ian Cooper Crispin Glover – Sarah Thomas"ReviewsAuthor InformationErnest 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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