Professor Xavier Mendik
Xavier Mendik is an Associate Head in the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton, and the Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival. He has written extensively on cult and horror film traditions. Some of his publications (as author/editor/co-editor) include: Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic (2012); 100 Cult Films (with Ernest Mathijs, 2011); The Cult Film Reader (with Ernest Mathijs, 2008); Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since...See more
Xavier Mendik is an Associate Head in the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton, and the Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival. He has written extensively on cult and horror film traditions. Some of his publications (as author/editor/co-editor) include: Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic (2012); 100 Cult Films (with Ernest Mathijs, 2011); The Cult Film Reader (with Ernest Mathijs, 2008); Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945 (2004); Shocking Cinema of the Seventies (2002); Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon (2002); Dario Argento's Tenebrae (2000); and Unruly Pleasures: The Cult Film and its Critics (2000). See less
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