Global Cult Cinemas

Dolores Tierney is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She has written extensively on Latin American exploitation and horror cinemas including chapters and articles in Cinema Journal (2014), Porn Studies (2019) and The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (2019), as well as the co-edited anthologies The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro (2014) and Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas and Latin America (2009). Iain Robert Smith is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London, UK. He is the author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema (2016) and co-editor of the collections Media Across Borders (2016) and Transnational Film Remakes (2017). He co-founded the SCMS Transnational Cinemas SIG and he is currently working on a monograph on cult traditions within Indian cinema. Shruti Narayanswamy is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews, UK. Her PhD research explores the representation of women in early Bombay cinema. She recently published an article in Transnational Screens on low-budget superhero films produced in Malegaon (2019) and she is currently preparing a post-doc project on the emergence of cult fandom within India and the South Asian diaspora.

Introduction “De-Westernizing Cult Film Studies”
Dolores Tierney (University of Sussex, UK), Iain Robert Smith (King's College London, UK), and Shruti Narayanswamy (University of St Andrews, UK)

Part I – Reconsidering the Cult Paradigm: Race/Gender/Postcoloniality

1. The Whiteness of Cult
Iain Robert Smith (King’s College London, UK)

2. Alejandro Jodorowsky in the Era of #MeToo
Victoria Ruétalo (University of Alberta, Canada)

3. Fangirls, Feminists and Horror Knitters: Female Audiences of ‘Asia Extreme’ Films in the Me Too Era.
Emma Pett (University of York, UK)

4. First Nations and Cult Cinema: Invisible, Assimilated, or Free?
Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Part II – Cult Audiences and Reception

5. Old Temple, New Worshippers: Contemporary Online Audiences for Indian Cult Cinema
Shruti Narayanswamy (University of St Andrews, UK)

6. Nascent Cult Viewing: Spanish Language Audiences and Theatres in New York and New Jersey 1969-1973
Dolores Tierney (University of Sussex, UK)

7. Cine de Culto, Cine Bizarro, Cine Inusual: Cult Cinema and Its Divergences in Argentina
Jonathan Risner (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)

8. Cult Across the Curtain: Receptions of the Czech Crazy Comedy at Home and Abroad
Jonathan Owen (Independent Researcher)

9. Maula Jatt; Or the Strange Case of Cult Cinema and Cinephilia in Pakistan
Syeda Momina Masood (University of the Punjab, Pakistan)

10. The Indonesian Context of Cult Cinema: The Cases of New Order’s Exploitation Films
Ekky Imanjaya (Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia)

Part III – Cult Auteurs, Stars, and Genres

11. Precarity, Opportunism, and a Stroke of Luck: Rafaele Rossi and Cult Filmmaking in Brazil
Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds, UK) and Laura Cánepa (Anhembi Morumbi University, São Paulo, Brazil)

12. Roger Corman in Ireland: The Saga of the Cult Auteur, the Irish Film Industry, and the Transnational Straight-to-video Market in the 1990s
Nessa Johnston (Edge Hill University, UK)

13. The Cult of Rekha: Bollywood Stardom and Diva Worship in the Digital Era
Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex, UK)

14. From “Cines de Barrio” to Global Cult: The Films of El Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata (The Man in the Silver Mask)”
Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (University of Kent, UK)

15. Out of South Africa: Direct-to-Video, Zaxploitation, and Allegories of Space
Ivo Ritzer (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

16. Tales of Entrails: Animist Cult Horror in Southeast Asia
Rosalind Galt (King’s College London, UK)

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