Cult Media

1. Introduction
Jonathan Wroot, Andy Willis

Part I. The Cult Business: Creating Consumption

2.
Battle Royale as a One-Film Franchise: Charting a Commercial Phenomenon Through Cult DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Jonathan Wroot

3. Whose Canon is it Anyway?: Subcultural Capital, Cultural Distinction and Value in High Art and Low Culture Film Distribution
Mark McKenna

4. A “Cult-like” Following: Nordic Noir, Nordicana and Arrow Films’ Bridging of Subcultural/Neocultural Capital
Matt Hills

5. Restoration, Restoration, Restoration: Charting the Changing Appearance of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on British Home Video
Lee Broughton

6. It’s Only Teenage Wasteland: The Home Media Revival of Freaks and Geeks

Katie Barnett

Part II. Cult Practices: The Consumption and Reception of Cult Media

7. Cult Fandom and Experiential Cinema
E. W. Nikdel

8. Pirates and Proprietary Rights: Perceptions of ‘Ownership’ and Media Objects Within Filesharing Communities
Virginia Crisp

9. On Vidding: The Home Media Archive and Vernacular Historiography
E. Charlotte Stevens

10. The Dragon Lives Again: Distributing ‘Bruceploitation’ via Home Entertainment
Oliver Carter, Simon Barber

11. Bollywood DVD: The Relationship Between Distributive Technology and Content in Transnational Cinema
Rayna Denison

12. The Sustained Popularity of In the Mood for Love: Cultural Consumption in Britain’s Reception Context
Fraser Elliott

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film/TV Technology, Film/TV Industry, Media Studies, Film Production