Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of Cultification

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Star-Making, Cult-Making and Forms of Authenticity....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Cult Movies With and Without Cult Stars: Differentiating Discourses of Stardom....Pages 21-36
‘Marginal moments of spectacle’: Character Actors, Cult Stardom and Hollywood Cinema....Pages 37-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
‘You’re Bill Groundhog-Day-Ghostbusting-Ass Murray’: ‘Mainstream’ Success, Star Agency and Cult Reinvention....Pages 57-72
Prisoner of Cool: Chloë Sevigny, Alternative Stardom and Image Management....Pages 73-89
From Behind the Masks to Inside: Acting, Authenticity and the Star Wars Co-Stars....Pages 90-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Vincent Price and Cult Performance: The Case of Witchfinder General....Pages 109-125
Hal Hartley’s ‘Look-out-Martin-Donovan’s-in-the-house!’ Shot: The Transformative Cult Indie Star-Director Relationship and Performance ‘Idiolect’....Pages 126-143
Cronenberg Connected: Cameo Acting, Cult Stardom and Supertexts....Pages 144-162
Low-Flying Stars: Cult Stardom in Mumblecore....Pages 163-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Damaged Beauty: Montgomery Clift, Tragedy and the Redefinition of a Star Image....Pages 181-196
Forever Emmanuelle: Sylvia Kristel and Soft-Core Cult Stardom....Pages 197-211
A Real Horror Star: Articulating the Extreme Authenticity of Ingrid Pitt....Pages 212-225
‘You’re Really a Miniature Bond’: Weng Weng and the Transnational Dimensions of Cult Film Stardom....Pages 226-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
‘The Screen’s Number One and Number Two Bogeymen’: The Critical Reception of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the 1930s and 1940s....Pages 243-258
Cult Connoisseurship and American Female Stars in the Sixties: Valuing a Few Withered Tits in the Midst of a ‘Mammary Renaissance’....Pages 259-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-288