Global Cult Cinemas

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Decolonizing Cult Film Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvIain Robert Smith,Dolores Tierney,Shruti Narayanswamy,UK) Smith, Iain Robert (King’s College London,UK) Tierney, Dolores (University of Sussex,UK) Narayanswamy, Shruti (University of St Andrews,Austin Fisher

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Global Cult Cinemas calls for a decolonisation of cult film studies. To date, discourses of cult cinema have predominantly focused upon Anglo-American cinema and its reception in the West. Even when cult scholarship has expanded to include non-English language cinema from regions such as East and Southeast Asia, what nevertheless tends to define these cinemas as cult has been the subcultural fandom for those films in the West. Shifting the focus onto cult film traditions and fandoms beyond the Anglosphere, Global Cult Cinemas makes a decisive intervention in the field by calling for a decolonisation of cult film studies. This volume therefore interrogates both the coloniality and gendered nature of much cult scholarship and the extent to which an implicit white male perspective needs challenging in an age of decolonising the academy. Our contributors focus their research on circuits of cult film production and reception beyond the predominant Anglophone centres, with particular attention to cult practices across the Global South. Chapters include investigations of specific cult film traditions within countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and Pakistan, alongside explorations of the politics of indigenous cult filmmaking, the global circulation of cult icons such as El Santo, and the status of auteurs such as Alejandro Jodorowsky in the era of #MeToo. In sum, this collection critiques the Eurocentric assumptions that lie at the heart of much existing cult film scholarship, and offers new ways of theorizing global cult cinemas to work towards the goal of decolonising cult film studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-19
Mått154 x 232 x 22 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Exploitation Cinemas
Antal sidor280
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501375200

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AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsContributorsIntroduction: Towards a Decolonisation of Cult Film StudiesIain Robert Smith (Kings College London, UK), Dolores Tierney (University of Sussex, UK) and Shruti Narayanswamy (St Andrews University, UK)Part I – Reconsidering the Cult Paradigm: Race/Gender/Postcoloniality1. The Whiteness of Cult Iain Robert Smith (Kings College London, UK)2. Alejandro Jodorowsky in the era of #MeToo Victoria Ruétalo (University of Alberta, Canada)3. De- and anti-colonial pathways: Reframing methodologies in the analysis of Latin American horror Valeria Villegas Lindvall (Independent Scholar, UK)4. Running Free? Aesthetics and Receptions of First Nations Cult Cinema Utopias Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia, Canada) Part II – Cult Audiences and Reception5. Re-Imagining the Origins of Cult Cinema: Spanish-Language Theatres and Their Audiences in 1969-1970 New York CityDolores Tierney (University of Sussex, UK)6. Cine de culto / Cine bizarro: Cult Cinema and Its Divergences in Argentina Jonathan Risner (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)7. Between Anarchy and Conformity: Czechoslovakia’s ‘Crazy Comedy’ Genre Jonathan Owen (Independent Scholar, UK)8. Cult Cinema and Cinephilia in 1970s PakistanSyeda Momina Masood (University of Pittsburgh, USA)9. Beyond ‘Crazy Indonesia’: Reframing Cult Cinema from an Indonesian Perspective Ekky Imanjaya (Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia)Part III – Cult Auteurs, Stars and Genres10. Opportunism, Precarity, and a Stroke of Luck: Raffaele Rossi and Cult Cinema in Brazil Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds, UK) and Laura Loguercio Cánepa (Universidade Paulista, Brazil)11. Roger Corman in Ireland: The Cult Auteur, the Celtic Tiger, and the Nascent Irish Cult Cinema Canon Nessa Johnston (University of Liverpool, UK)12. Cult Genealogies of El Santo FilmsAntonio Lázaro-Reboll (University of Kent, UK)13. Tales of Entrails: animist cult horror in Southeast AsiaRosalind Galt (King’s College London, UK)Index

Through its ambitious curatorial framework and critical impulse to re-conceptualize transnationalism and decolonization with nuance and rigour, Global Cult Cinemas makes a crucial intervention that contests normative geopolitics of canonization in Anglophone film studies. The contributors’ diverse critical rapport with the core concepts of film studies (e.g. authorship, cultural translation, extraction, fandom, genre, Indigeneity, racialization, post-coloniality, and spectatorship) opens new theoretical paradigms to re-locate cult film in and out of the field’s canonizing drives. Moving beyond the institutionally driven, critically shallow, and culturalist agendas of decolonization, the editors treat the complexities of knowledge production with great enthusiasm and care.