Ernest Mathijs

According to CTV News, his "specialties include movie audiences, the reception of alternative cinema and cult film."{{cite news|url=http://bc.ctvnews.ca/ubc-professor-launches-frightful-film-app-1.1515788|title=UBC professor launches frightful film app|last=Heatherington|first=Reyhana|work=CTV News|date=2013-10-27|access-date=2014-06-25}} Mathijs is primarily known for his books on cult films, such as The Cult Film Reader{{cite journal|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/science_fiction_film_and_television/v003/3.2.abbott.html|title=The Cult Film Reader (review)|last=Abbott|first=Stacey|journal=Science Fiction Film and Television|volume=3|issue=2|date=Autumn 2010|pages=316–319}}{{cite journal|title=The Cult Film Reader|last=Church|first=David|journal=Film Quarterly|volume=62|issue=3|date=Spring 2009|doi=10.1525/fq.2009.62.3.86|pages=86–88|jstor=10.1525/fq.2009.62.3.86}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/400941.article|title=The Cult Film Reader|last=Walker|first=Greg|journal=Times Higher Education|date=2008-03-06|access-date=2014-06-25}} and 100 Cult Films,{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/want-to-make-people-mad-pick-the-top-100-cult-films-of-all-time/article554897/|title=Want to Make People Mad? Pick the Top 100 Cult Films of All Time|last=Liederman|first=Marsha|work=The Globe and Mail|date=2012-09-06|access-date=2014-06-25}}{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143861137/100-cult-films-some-youd-expect-but-star-wars|title='100 Cult Films': Some You'd Expect, But 'Star Wars'?|author=|work=NPR|date=2011-12-18|access-date=2014-06-25}}{{cite news|url=https://www.straight.com/movies/ernest-mathijs-100-cult-films-dives-movies-some-us-cant-stop-watching|title=Ernest Mathijs' 100 Cult Films dives into the movies some of us can't stop watching|last=Mack|first=Adrian|work=The Georgia Straight|date=2012-01-04|access-date=2014-06-25}} which he co-edited and co-wrote, respectively, with Xavier Mendik; Cult Cinema,{{cite journal|title=Cult Cinema by Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton. Walden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011|last=Sheppard|first=Bret|journal=Quarterly Review of Film and Video|volume=31|issue=1|year=2014|pages=93–97|doi=10.1080/10509208.2011.646214|s2cid=191577273}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Cult+cinema%3b+an+introduction.-a0263161485|title=Cult cinema; an introduction. (Book review)|author=|journal=Reference & Research Book News|date=2011-08-01|via=TheFreeLibrary|location=Portland, OR |access-date=2023-11-06}} which he co-wrote with Jamie Sexton; The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero{{cite web|url=http://www.beyondhollywood.com/book-review-the-cinema-of-david-cronenberg-from-baron-of-blood-to-cultural-hero/|title=Book Review: The Cinema of David Cronenberg|last=Ognjanovic|first=Dejan|work=Beyond Hollywood|date=2009-02-01|access-date=2014-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163132/http://www.beyondhollywood.com/book-review-the-cinema-of-david-cronenberg-from-baron-of-blood-to-cultural-hero/|archive-date=2014-07-14|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|title=Review: The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker?|last=Fradley|first=Martin|journal=Film Quarterly|volume=64|issue=3|date=Spring 2011|pages=73–75|doi=10.1525/FQ.2011.64.3.73|jstor=10.1525/FQ.2011.64.3.73}}{{cite journal|url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/science_fiction_film_and_television/v003/3.2.latham.html|title=David Cronenberg: Author or Film-Maker?, and: Videodrome. Studies in the Horror Film, and: The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero (review)|last=Latham|first=Rob|journal=Science Fiction Film and Television|volume=3|issue=2|date=Autumn 2010|pages=301–307|doi=10.1353/sff.2010.0010|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024}} and John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps.{{cite web|url=http://rue-morgue.com/2014/06/sinister-seven-ubc-film-professor-ernest-mathijs/|title=Sinister Seven: UBC Film Professor Ernest Mathijs|author=|work=Rue Morgue|date=2014-06-04|access-date=2014-06-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703015420/http://rue-morgue.com/2014/06/sinister-seven-ubc-film-professor-ernest-mathijs/|archive-date=2014-07-03|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/horror-flick-ginger-snaps-gets-academic-love-in-new-book/article15132929/|title=Horror Flick Ginger Snaps Gets Academic Love in New Book|last=Lederman|first=Marsha|work=The Globe and Mail|date=2013-10-29|access-date=2014-06-25}} With Sexton, he is the co-editor of the Cultographies series, which examines individual cult films in the form of short books.{{cite journal|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Coming-Attractions/28755|title=Coming Attractions|last=Ayoub|first=Nina|journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=2008-02-08|access-date=2014-06-28}}{{cite web|url=http://www.beyondhollywood.com/book-review-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-by-jeffrey-weinstock/|title=Book Review: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (by Jeffrey Weinstock)|last=Ognjanovic|first=Dejan|work=Beyond Hollywood|date=2008-02-09|access-date=2014-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715045014/http://www.beyondhollywood.com/book-review-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-by-jeffrey-weinstock/|archive-date=2014-07-15|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|url=http://www.participations.org/Volume%206/Issue%202/weinstock.pdf|title=Review:Weinstock, Jeffrey: The Rocky Horror Picture Show|last=Lord|first=Julie|journal=Participations|volume=6|issue=2|date=November 2009|access-date=2014-06-28}}{{cite journal|title=The Rocky Horror Picture Show (review)|last=Tinkcom|first=Matthew|journal=Science Fiction Film and Television|pages=311–314|volume=2|issue=2|date=Autumn 2009|doi=10.1353/sff.0.0084|s2cid=192238803}}

Mathijs was formerly married to Canadian actress Emily Perkins. He was born in Belgium.{{cite news|url=http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/01/04/ubc-prof-wrote-the-book-on-cult-films-the-arguments-start-here/|title=UBC Prof Wrote the Book on Cult Films, the Arguments Start Here|last=Shaefer|first=Glen|work=The Province|date=2012-01-04|access-date=2014-06-25|archive-date=2014-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140902132500/http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/01/04/ubc-prof-wrote-the-book-on-cult-films-the-arguments-start-here/|url-status=dead}}

• {{cite journal|last=Mathijs|first=Ernest|year=2002|title=Big Brother and Critical Discourse: the Reception of Big Brother Belgium|journal=Television & New Media|volume=3|issue=3|pages=311–322|issn=1527-4764|doi=10.1177/152747640200300306|s2cid=145165823}}
• {{cite journal|last=Mathijs|first=Ernest|year=2003|title=AIDS References in the Critical Reception of David Cronenberg: It May Not Be Such a Bad Disease after All|journal=Cinema Journal|volume=42|issue=4|pages=29–45|doi=10.1353/cj.2003.0019|jstor=1566526|s2cid=192144392 }}
• {{cite book|editor-last=Mathijs|editor-first=Ernest|year=2004|title=The Cinema of the Low Countries|location=London|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-904764-01-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/cinemaoflowcount0000unse}}
• {{cite book|editor1-last=Mathijs|editor1-first=Ernest|editor2-last=Mendik|editor2-first=Xavier|year=2004|title=Alternative Europe; European Exploitation and Underground Cinema Since 1945|location=London|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-903364-93-2}}
• {{cite book|editor1-last=Mathijs|editor1-first=Ernest|editor2-last=Jones|editor2-first=Janet|year=2004|title=Big Brother International: Format, Critics and Publics|location=London|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-904764-19-9}}
• {{cite journal|last=Mathijs|first=Ernest|year=2005|title=Bad Reputations: the Reception of Trash Cinema|journal=Screen|volume=46|issue=4|pages=451–472|issn=0036-9543|doi=10.1093/screen/hjh083}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Barker|first1=Martin|last2=Mathijs|first2=Ernest|last3=Mendik|first3=Xavier Mendik|year=2006|title=Menstrual Monsters: The Reception of the Ginger Snaps Cult Horror Franchise|journal=Film International|volume=21|issue=3, 4|pages=68–77|issn=1651-6826|doi=10.1386/fiin.4.3.68}}
• {{cite book|editor1-last=Mathijs|editor1-first=Ernest|editor2-last=Pomerance|editor2-first=Murray|editor2-link = Murray Pomerance |year=2006|title=From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings|location=New York and Amsterdam|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-1682-8}}
• {{cite book|editor-last=Mathijs|editor-first=Ernest|year=2006|title=The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context|location=London|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-904764-83-0}}
• {{cite book|last1=Barker|first1=Martin|last2=Mathijs|first2=Ernest|year=2007|title=Watching The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's World Audiences|location=New York|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-6397-1|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/watchinglordofri0000unse}}
• {{cite book|editor1-last=Mathijs|editor1-first=Ernest|editor2-last=Mendik|editor2-first=Xavier|year=2008|title=The Cult Film Reader|location=London and New York|publisher=Open University Press|isbn=978-0-335-21924-7}}
• {{cite book|last=Mathijs|first=Ernest|year=2008|title=The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero|location=London|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=978-1-905674-66-4}}
• {{cite book|last1=Mathijs|first1=Ernest|last2=Sexton|first2=Jamie Sexton|year=2011|title=Cult Cinema|location=Oxford and Boston|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-1-4051-7374-2}}
• {{cite book|last1=Mathijs|first1=Ernest|last2=Mendik|first2=Xavier|year=2011|title=100 Cult Films|location=London|publisher=British Film Institute and Palgrave-Macmillan|isbn=9781844574087}}
• {{cite journal|last=Mathijs|first=Ernest|year=2011|title=Referential Acting and the Ensemble Cast|journal=Screen|volume=52|issue=1|pages=89–96|issn=0036-9543|doi=10.1093/screen/hjq063}}
• {{cite book|last=Mathijs|first=Ernest|year=2013|title=John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps|location=Toronto|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9781442615670}}

{{reflist|30em}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103081502/http://www.film.ubc.ca/film_studies/faculty_staff.shtml Ernest Mathijs] at the University of British Columbia

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mathijs, Ernest}}

Category:Living people

Category:Academic staff of the University of British Columbia

Category:Year of birth uncertain

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)