The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781032084206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 520 str.

Ernest Mathijs; Jamie Sexton

Opis

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)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.