Editors' Introduction "De-Westernizing Cult Film Studies" (Dolores Tierney, University of Sussex, UK, Iain Robert Smith, King's College London, UK and Shruti Narayanswamy, University of St Andrews, UK ) Part I - Reconsidering the Cult Paradigm: Race/Gender/Postcoloniality 1. The Whiteness of Cult (Iain Robert Smith, King's College London, UK) 2. Alejandro Jodorowsky in the era of #MeToo (Victoria Ruétalo, University of Alberta, Canada) 3. Fangirls, Feminists and Horror Knitters: Female audiences of 'Asia Extreme' films in the Me Too era. (Emma Pett, University of York, UK) 4. First Nations and Cult Cinema: Invisible, Assimilated or Free? (Ernest Mathijs, University of British Columbia, Canada) Part II - Cult Audiences and Reception 5. Old Temple, New Worshippers: Contemporary online audiences for Indian cult cinema (Shruti Narayanswamy, University of St Andrews, UK) 6. Nascent Cult Viewing: Spanish language audiences and theatres in New York and New Jersey 1969-1973 (Dolores Tierney, University of Sussex, UK) 7.

Cine de culto, cine bizarro, cine inusual: Cult Cinema and Its Divergences in Argentina (Jonathan Risner, Indiana University Bloomington, USA) 8. Cult Across the Curtain: Receptions of the Czech Crazy Comedy at Home and Abroad (Jonathan Owen, Independent Researcher) 9. Maula Jatt; Or the Strange Case of Cult Cinema and Cinephilia in Pakistan (Syeda Momina Masood, University of the Punjab, Pakistan) 10. The Indonesian Context of Cult Cinema: The Cases of New Order's Exploitation Films (Ekky Imanjaya, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia). Part III - Cult Auteurs, Stars and Genres 11. Precarity, Opportunism and a Stroke of Luck: Rafaele Rossi and Cult Filmmaking in Brazil (Stephanie Dennison, University of Leeds, UK, and Laura Cánepa, Anhembi Morumbi University, São Paulo, Brazil) 12. Roger Corman in Ireland: the saga of the cult auteur, the Irish film industry, and the transnational straight-to-video market in the 1990s (Nessa Johnston, Edge Hill University, UK) 13. The Cult of Rekha: Bollywood Stardom and Diva Worship in the Digital Era (Michael Lawrence, University of Sussex, UK) 14.

From "cines de barrio" to Global Cult: The films of El Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata (The Man in the Silver Mask)" (Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, University of Kent, UK) 15. Out of South Africa: Direct-to-Video, Zaxploitation, and Allegories of Space (Ivo Ritzer, University of Bayreuth, Germany) 16. Tales of entrails: animist cult horror in Southeast Asia (Rosalind Galt, King's College London, UK) Index.