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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 .
Ernest Mathijs is a scholar of cult film, genre cinema, and European horror. He has published several books and articles on these topics, and co-produced a documentary on Canadian genre film.
- 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...
Apr 5, 2011 · What springs to mind when you think of cult cinema? Reruns of The Rocky Horror Picture Show during Halloween? Or perhaps the iconic “I’m with Pedro” shirts, courtesy of Napoleon Dynamite? Ernest Mathijs’ new book, Cult Cinema, examines this wildly popular, yet hard-to-define genre of film.
Sep 26, 2009 · Ernest Mathijs. @ErnestMathijs. Film Scholar, Media Studies, 100 CULT FILMS, CULT CINEMA, DAVID CRONENBERG, DELPHINE SEYRIG, LORD O/T RINGS, GINGER SNAPS, BEUYS, PYNCHON. @FilmUBC. @globalHobbit. Vancouver, British Columbia participations.org Joined September 2009. 1,165 Following. 1,200 Followers. Tweets & replies. Media. Likes.
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).
Ernest Mathijs is a professor of film and media studies at the University of British Columbia, specializing in alternative cinema and media audiences. He has published on cult film, genre, digital cinema, fantasy, Belgian cinema, and more.
- The University of British Columbia
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