The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema

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 – 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





"It's like looking at your past crimes at a parole hearing": Transgression in Cult Cinema– Tom 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 Anna 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 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