The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema - 9781032084206

Name: The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema - 9781032084206
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Routledge Companion to Cult CinemaAuthor(s): Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032084206, 978-1032084206\nSynopsis\nThe 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 theyre good, others so good they remain inaccessible).\n\nCult cinema is no longer only comprised of the midnight movie or the extreme genre film. Its range has widened and the issues it broaches have become battlegrounds in cultural debates that typify the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Sections are introduced with the major theoretical frameworks, philosophical inspirations, and methodologies for studying cult films, with individual chapters excavating the most.