Ernest Mathijs & Jamie Sexton 
Cult Cinema 
An Introduction

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

Tabella dei contenuti

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.

Circa l’autore

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.