The cult film reader / edited by Ernest Mathijs and Xavier Mendick.

"Cult bibliography": p. [495]-521.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The concept of cult: Film cults / Harry Allan Potamkin. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin. Notes on "camp" / Susan Sontag. Uses of camp / Andrew Ross. Casablanca : cult movies and intertextual collage / Umberto Eco. Science fiction double feature : ideology in the cult film / Barry K. Grant. Semiotics by instinct : "cult film" as a signifying practice between film and audience / Anne Jerslev. "Trashing" the acadamy : taste, excess and an emerging politics of cinematic style / Jeffrey Sconce. Sleaze mania, Euro-trash and high art : the place of European art films in American low culture / Joan Hawkins. Media fandom, neoreligiousity and cult(ural) studies / Matt Hills. Cult fictions : cult movies, subcultural capital and the production of cultural distinctions / Mark Jancovich -- Cult case studies: Un chien andalou / Jean Vigo. The anxiety of influence : Georges Franju and the medical horrorshows of Jess Franco / Joan Hawkins. The obscene seen : spectacle and transgression in postwar burlesque films / Eric Schaefer. Orson Welles and the big experimental film cult / Parker Tyler. Little cinema of horrors / Gary Hentzi. What is a cult horror film? / Welch Everman. Blaxploitation horror films : generic reappropriation or reinscription? / Harry Benshoff. Carter in context / Steve Chibnall. The future of allusion : Hollywood in the seventies (and beyond) / Noel Carroll. Hitchcock in Texas : intertextuality in the face of blood and gore / Janet Staiger. The essential evil in/of Eraserhead (or, Lynch to the contrary) / Steven Jay Schneider. The cult of horror / Lawrence O'Toole. The Blair witch project : film and the internet / J.P. Telotte -- National and international cults: El topo : through the wasteland of the counterculture / J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Playing with genre : an introduction to the Italian giallo / Gary Needham. Han's island revisited : Enter the dragon as transnational cult film / Leon Hunt. Magical girls and atomic bomb sperm : Japanese animation in America / Annalee Newitz. The killer : cult film and transcultural (mis)reading / Jinsoo An. Trading in horror, cult and matricide : Peter Jackson's phenomenal bad taste and New Zealand fantasies of inter/national cinematic success / Harmony Wu. Invisible representation : the oral contours of a national popular cinema / Sheila J. Nayar. Mute bodies, disembodied voices : notes on sound in Turkish popular cinema / Nezih Erdoǧan. Ichi the killer / Tom Mes -- Cult consumption: Cult of distraction : on Berlin's picture palaces / Siegfried Kracauer. Introduction to distinction / Pierre Bourdieu. Portrait of a cult film audience : The Rocky Horror picture show / Bruce A. Austin. Subcultural studies and the film audience : rethinking the film viewing context / Gina Marchetti. 'Fans' notes : the horror film fanzine / David Sanjek. Get a life! : fans, poachers, nomads / Henry Jenkins. The cultural economy of fandom / John Fiske. The crash controversy : reviewing the press / Martin Barker, Jane Arthurs, Ramaswami Harindranath. Beaver Las Vegas! : a fan-boy's defence of Showgirls / I.Q. Hunter. Menstrual monsters : the reception of the Ginger snaps cult horror franchise / Martin Barker, Ernest Mathijs, Xavier Mendik.