Table of Contents

List of Figures.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I Receptions and Debates.

1 Cult Reception Contexts.

2 The Cult Cinema Marketplace.

3 Prestige, Awards, and Festivals.

4 Censorship and Criticism.

5 Fandom and Subculture.

6 The Cult Auteur.

7 Cult Stardom.

8 Camp and Paracinema.

9 Transgression and Freakery.

10 Gender and Sexuality.

11 Transnationalism and Orientalism.

12 Religion and Utopia.

Part II Themes and Genres.

13 Exploitation and B Movies.

14 Underground and Avant-garde Cinema.

15 Cult Cinema and Drugs.

16 Cult Cinema and Music.

17 Classical Hollywood Cults.

18 Cult Horror Cinema.

19 Cult Science Fiction Cinema.

20 Cult Blockbusters.

21 Intertextuality and Irony.

22 Meta-cult.

Filmography.

References.

Credits and Sources.

Index.

About the Author

Ernest Mathijs is Associate Professor in Film Studies at theUniversity of British Columbia, Canada. His books include TheCult Film Reader (co-editor), three books on the reception of The Lord of the Rings, and The Cinema of DavidCronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero. Jamie Sexton is Senior Lecturer in Film and TelevisionStudies, Northumbria University, UK. He is the author ofAlternative Film Culture in Inter-War Britain (2008), editorof Music, Sound and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual(2007), and co-editor (with Laura Mulvey) of ExperimentalBritish Television (2007). Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton are also co-editors of the bookseries Cultographies.