The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-95027-6 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.10.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions |
| Zusatzinfo | 32 Halftones, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 1048 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-95027-0 / 1138950270 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-95027-6 / 9781138950276 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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