Further Reading on Katakuris and Cult

If you're interested in following up on Happiness of the Katakuris, Miike and aspects of cult movies, you can read some of the following:

Conrich, Ian (2007). ‘Musical Performance and Cult Film Experience’ in Conrich and Tincknell (eds.), Film’s Musical Moments. Edinburgh. Edinburgh UP. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780748627271-012/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqBpUQnke5JUvartYvdp4Vj5afVa-kMAKIXlMTq8A0qknl5_qMm

Dew, Oliver (2007) ‘“Asia Extreme”: Japanese Cinema and British Hype’, New Cinemas 5(1): pp. 53-73 https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin.5.1.53_1

Eco, Umberto (1986). ‘Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage’. In: Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality. Reading: Vintage, pp. 197-211. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3685047

Gerow, Aaron (2009). “The Homelessness of Style and Problems of Studying Miike Takashi.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 18:1: 24-43 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24411781

Mathijs, Ernest. & Xavier Mendik (2008). ‘Editorial Introduction: What is Cult Film?’. In: E. Mathijs & X. Mendik, eds. The Cult Film Reader. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 1-11.

Mes, Tom (2001) ‘Visitor Q’, Midnight Eye, http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/visitorq.shtml 

Sconce, Jeffrey (1995) 'Trashing' the Academy: Taste, Excess, and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style. Screen, 36(4), pp. 371-393. https://academic.oup.com/screen/article-abstract/36/4/371/1723311

Shin, Chi-Yun (2008). ‘Art of branding: Tartan “Asia Extreme” films’, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 50 [online] Available at: http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc50.2008/TartanDist/index.html

Sontag, Susan (1964), ‘Notes on ‘Camp’’, in The Cult Film Reader (2008). McGraw-Hill.

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew (2023), 'Cult Behaviors', in J. P. Telotte (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas (New York and London: Oxford University Press), pp. 206-219  https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197557723.013.13

The original version of my talk is published here: ‘The Ultimate Super-Happy-Zombie-Romance-Murder-Mystery-Family-Comedy-Karaoke-Disaster-Movie-Part-Animated-Remake-All-Singing-All-Dancing-Musical-Spectacular-Extravaganza: Miike Takashi’s The Happiness of the Katakuris as “cult” hybrid”’, in eds. Leon Hunt, Sharon Lockyer and Milly Williamson, Screening the Undead: Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television (Bloomsbury, 2013), 208-232

You can also learn more about my research about cult film, Miike and other things here.