Xavier Mendik

Xavier Mendik
Born 1969 (age 48–49)
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Occupation 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.

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]

Personal life

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

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 1-903364-93-0.
  • 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. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  3. 1 2 Young, Graham (2013-11-15). "Midland film festival has X factor". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  4. ↑ Poole, Dan (2006-08-28). "A guide to unusual degrees". The Independent. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  5. ↑ "Study Buffy at university". Metro. 2006-05-16.
  6. ↑ Mack, Adrian (2012-01-04). "Ernest Mathijs' 100 Cult Films dives into the movies some of us can't stop watching". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  7. ↑ Liederman, Marsha (2012-09-06). "Want to make people mad? Pick the top 100 cult films of all time". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  8. ↑ "'100 Cult Films': Some You'd Expect, But 'Star Wars'?". NPR. 2011-12-18. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  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). doi:10.1525/fq.2009.62.3.86.
  11. ↑ Walker, Greg (2008-03-06). "The Cult Film Reader". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 2014-06-25.

Further reading

Interviews

  • Sélavy, Virginie (2008-05-01). "Interview with Xavier Mendik". Electric Sheep Magazine. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
  • Willis, Paul (2009-08-07). "Zombies give life to our economic blues". CNN. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
  • Haigh, Ian (2010-05-03). "What makes a cult film?". BBC News Magazine. Retrieved 2014-06-25.


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