Xavier Mendik

Xavier Mendik
Born	1969 (age 55–56) Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Occupation(s)	Documentary filmmaker, professor, author, festival director
Known for	Cult film studies

Xavier Charles Mendik ^[1] is an English documentary filmmaker, author, and festival director. He is an associate professor in film and director of graduate studies in the School of Media at Birmingham City University, ^[2] and formerly at the University of Brighton. He also runs the Cult Film Archive and is the director of Cine-Excess International Film Festival.

Early life

Mendik was born in Birmingham, England, UK. ^[3]

Career

Mendik teaches at Birmingham City University. He runs Cine-Excess and maintains the Cult Film Archive, a large repository of cult films. ^[3] At Brunel University, he taught classes on "Buffy studies" and other cult media properties. ^{[4] [5]}

Along with Ernest Mathijs, Mendik is the author of 100 Cult Films , a project of the British Film Institute. ^[6] The book attracted controversy for its selections. ^{[7] [8]} With Mathijs, he also co-edited The Cult Film Reader . ^{[9] [10] [11]}

Bibliography

• Mendik, Xavier (2000). Dario Argento's Tenebrae. Trowbridge: Flick Books. ISBN   9781862360228.
• Mendik, Xavier; Harper, Graeme (2000). Unruly Pleasures: the Cult Film and Its Critics. Guildford: FAB press. ISBN   9781903254004.
• Mendik, Xavier; Schneider, Steven Jay, eds. (2002). Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon. London: Wallflower Press. ISBN   978-0-231-16279-1.
• Mendik, Xavier, ed. (2002). Shocking Cinema of the Seventies. Hereford: Noir Publishing. ISBN   9780953656448.
• Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier, eds. (2004). Alternative Europe; European Exploitation and Underground Cinema Since 1945. London: Wallflower Press. ISBN   978-1-903364-93-2.
• Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier, eds. (2008). The Cult Film Reader. London and New York: Open University Press. ISBN   978-0-335-21924-7.
• Mathijs, Ernest; Mendik, Xavier (2011). 100 Cult Films. London: British Film Institute and Palgrave-Macmillan. ISBN   9781844574087.

References

1. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008,"(1 October 2014), Xavier Charles Mendik, 1969; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database; Birth Registration, Meriden, Warwickshire, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
2. "Xavier Mendik". The Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. Archived from the original on 5 February 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
3. Young, Graham (15 November 2013). "Midland film festival has X factor". Birmingham Mail . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
4. Poole, Dan (28 August 2006). "A guide to unusual degrees" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
5. "Study Buffy at university". Metro . 16 May 2006.
6. Mack, Adrian (4 January 2012). "Ernest Mathijs' 100 Cult Films dives into the movies some of us can't stop watching". The Georgia Straight . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
7. Liederman, Marsha (6 September 2012). "Want to make people mad? Pick the top 100 cult films of all time". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
8. "'100 Cult Films': Some You'd Expect, But 'Star Wars'?". NPR . 18 December 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
9. Abbott, Stacey (Autumn 2010). "The Cult Film Reader (review)". Science Fiction Film and Television . 3 (2): 316–319.
10. Church, David (Spring 2009). "The Cult Film Reader". Film Quarterly . 62 (3): 86–88. doi:10.1525/fq.2009.62.3.86. JSTOR   10.1525/fq.2009.62.3.86.
11. Walker, Greg (6 March 2008). "The Cult Film Reader". Times Higher Education . Retrieved 25 June 2014.

Further reading

Interviews

• Sélavy, Virginie (1 May 2008). "Interview with Xavier Mendik". Electric Sheep Magazine. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
• Willis, Paul (7 August 2009). "Zombies give life to our economic blues". CNN . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
• Haigh, Ian (3 May 2010). "What makes a cult film?". BBC News Magazine . Retrieved 25 June 2014.