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  • Cult Cinema

    An Introduction

    by Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton ...
    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 cinemaOffers a scholarly treatment of a hotly contested topic at the center of current academic debateCovers audience reactions, aesthetics, genres, theories of cult ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema

    Edited by Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema – films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status mostly because they break rules, offend, and challenge understandings of achievement (some are so bad they’re good, others so good they remain inaccessible).Cult cinema is no longer only comprised of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • 100 Cult Films

    The Sequel

    by Ernest Mathijs, Xavier Mendik ...
    Series series BFI Screen Guides
    In this follow up to their original 100 Cult Films volume, Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendik provide a guide to one hundred more incredible films, from the 1911 Italian silent Dante's Inferno to Ti West's horror trilogy X, Pearl (2022) and MaXXXine (2024).This richly illustrated guide addresses the work of filmmakers including Stanley Kubrick, Paul Verhoeven, Ana Lily Amirpour, Stephanie Rothman, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Screen Censorship Companion

    Critical Explorations in the Control of Film and Screen Media

    Edited by Daniel Biltereyst, Ernest Mathijs ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Film History
    Throughout the history of film, censorship has existed everywhere—in all shapes, colours, and dimensions. The act of restricting the free production, circulation, screening, and consumption of movies was never unique to authoritarian regimes. Censorship has had far-reaching implications for filmmakers, distributors, exhibitors, and audiences across generations and across genres, including the self ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps

    by Ernest Mathijs ...
    Series series Canadian Cinema
    Few studies of Canadian cinema to date have engaged deeply with genre cinema and its connection to Canadian culture. Ernest Mathijs does just that in this volume, which traces the inception, production, and reception of Canada’s internationally renowned horror film, Ginger Snaps (2000). This tongue-in-cheek Gothic film, which centres on two death-obsessed teenage sisters, draws a provocative ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Bloody Women

    Women Directors of Horror

    by Aislinn Clarke, Ashlee Blackwell, Anna Bogutskaya, Amy Harris, Brian Hauser, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Ernest Mathijs, Eve O’Dea, Kate R. Robertson, Iris Robinson0, Shelby Shukaliak1, Erica Tortolani2, Dan Vena3, Patrick Woodstock4, Victoria McCollum6, James Francis Jr.7 ...
    Series series Critical Conversations in Horror Studies
    Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging that women in the industry face ongoing challenges, this book focuses on their diverse contributions as creators, consumers, and critics of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!

    The Year's Work on The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made

    by Landon Palmer, Nathan Abrams, Lenika Cruz, James Curnow, John Donegan, John Dyck, Ernest Mathijs, Matt Foy, Keith Kahn-Harris, Amanda Ann Klein, James MacDowell, Renee Middlemost, Ross Morin, Hario Satrio Priambodho, Carter Soles, Ellen Wright ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    When released in 2003, The Room, an obscure, self-financed relationship drama by an eccentric self-taught filmmaker named Tommy Wiseau, should have been completely forgotten. Yet nearly two decades later, "the worst movie ever made"—as many a critic would have it—has become the most popular cult film since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.In You Are Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!, contributors explore this ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection

    The White Book of “Einstein Meets Magritte”

    Edited by Jan Broekaert, Ernest Mathijs, Diederik Aerts ...
    Series Book 1 - Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society
    Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection presents insights of the renowned key speakers of the interdisciplinary Einstein meets Magritte conference (1995, Brussels Free University). The contributions elaborate on fundamental questions of science, with regard to the contemporary world, and push beyond the borders of traditional approaches. All of the articles in this volume address ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • 100 Cult Films

    by Ernest Mathijs, Xavier Mendik ...
    Series series BFI Screen Guides
    Some films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.Yet these films, from the shocking Cannibal Holocaust to the apocalyptic Donnie Darko, from the destructive Tetsuo to the awfully bad The Room, from the hilarious This Is Spinal Tap to the campy Showgirls, from the asylum ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • American Horror Film

    The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium

    Edited by Steffen Hantke ...
    Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self-or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye.Individual ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Comedy Studies Reader

    Edited by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz ...
    From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD