Book description
Cult Cinema: an Introduction
presents the first in-depth academic examination of all aspects of the
field of cult cinema, including audiences, genres, and theoretical perspectives.
- Represents the first exhaustive introduction to cult cinema
- Offers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the
center of current academic debate
- Covers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult
cinema, as well as historical insights into the topic
Ernest Mathijs
is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of British
Columbia, Canada. His books include
The Cult Film Reader
(co-editor), three books on the reception of
The Lord of the Rings,
and
The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero
.
Jamie Sexton is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies,
Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Alternative Film
Culture in Inter-War Britain (2008), editor of Music, Sound
and Multimedia: From the Live to the Virtual (2007), and
co-editor (with Laura Mulvey) of Experimental British
Television (2007).
Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton are also co-editors of the book
series Cultographies.
