Global Cult Cinemas Decolonizing Cult Film Studies

Austin Fisher is Associate Professor of Popular Culture at Bournemouth University, UK, author of Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western (2011), founding co-editor of the "Global Exploitation Cinemas" book series and editor of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads (2015). He serves on the Editorial Board of the Transnational Cinemas journal, is Co-Chair of the SCMS "Transnational Cinemas" Scholarly Interest Group, and founder of the "Spaghetti Cinema" festival.

Dolores Tierney has written extensively on Latin American exploitation and horror cinemas including the co-edited anthologies Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas and Latin America (2009) and The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro (2014), and chapters and articles in Cinema Journal (2014), Porn Studies (2019), and Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema (2019).

Johnny Walker is Associate Professor in the Department of Arts at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015) and founding co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinemas book series (Bloomsbury).

Shruti Narayanswamy's PhD research explores the representation of women in early Bombay cinema. She recently published an article in Transnational Screens on low-budget superhero films produced in Malegaon (2019) and she is currently preparing a post-doc project on the emergence of cult fandom within India and the South Asian diaspora.