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Ernest Mathijs (born 1968 or 1969) [1] is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches film. He has published several books on cult films . Career. According to CTV News, his "specialties include movie audiences, the reception of alternative cinema and cult film." [2] .
Ernest Mathijs is a Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia. He researches cult film, genre cinema, David Cronenberg, and European horror.
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- Bad Film Appreciation
- Escaping Stereotypes
- A Matter of Taste
Failure is a big part of the cult experience: a commonality. There is a whole cult-subgenre called "bad film" — movies that are celebrated for their badness. "One of the really core things about bad film appreciation is that the best bad movies are the ones that seem to fail sincerely, that they want to be taken seriously and they fail utterly to a...
Cult movies often succeed because they present a viewpoint or characters that mainstream movies don't. Robyn Citizen who is a manager of festival programming at the Toronto International Film Festival, and points to the 1985 movie The Last Dragon, and how it spoke to African-American viewers, as an example. "It's largely modelled after The Chinese ...
One barrier that keeps cult movies from mainstream success is their violation of boundaries of taste and acceptability. For instance, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But according to David Church, a film and media scholar at the University of Indiana,Texas Chainsaw Massacredoesn't break the rules in the way you might think. "I seem to recall liking Te...
Ernest Mathijs is known for The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film - Part One: Gimme Shelter: Cinepix and the Birth of the Canadian Horror Film (2019) and The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film - Part Two: An Emerging Revolution: New Territories & Diverse Fears (2019).
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5 apr 2011 · Ernest Mathijs ’ new book, Cult Cinema, examines this wildly popular, yet hard-to-define genre of film. “I have been researching fan audiences and publics of films for over a decade now, and I was struck by the fact that there is no encompassing up-to-date overview of cult cinema,” said Mathijs.
I am a Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia. I specialize in ‘alternative cinema’ and media audiences – cult film, genre,...
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