Define Cult Cinema

John Landis posed this question at a cult film conference, “Back in the day, when someone called your film cult it meant it had bombed. Why study failures?” (qtd. in Mathjis Sexton, 2011, 26). I can think of a few reasons. Instead of making everything "go viral" and being banished to obscurity (Dayummm Daniel!), why not go cult? While I do not tackle using cult cinema techniques for marketing in this essay (perhaps one day...), I do take on what it means to be a cult movie. I wrote this essay as a final paper for a grad level class in May of 2013. You can read the full essay here.

Depicting Interactive Technology in Inception: A Theatrical Experience

Basically, this was a paper I wrote for class. I had to watch a film in a "theater" (loosely defined as "with a group of people in a public setting"), and then discuss the film using the theories and terms we learned in class. I received a high grade for this paper (a B+), and so for your reading pleasure, I have reproduced it below. I have removed the AI's name that graded the paper (to protect the innocent), but the course instructor's name remains intact here since I used him as a source in this paper. Finally, keep in mind that there are SPOILERS for the movie so read with caution!
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EDIT 10/6/14: You can read the post in full here.