Cult -- Toward a constructivist approach to media cults / Philippe Le Guern -- The mainstream, distinction, and cult TV / Mark Jancovich and Nathan Hunt -- Quality science fiction / Petra Kuppers -- Bright particular star / Roberta E. Pearson -- Fictions -- Virtual reality and cult television / Sara Gwenllian-Jones -- Charactor, or, The strange case of Uma Peel / David A. Black -- Flexing those anthropological muscles / Karen Backstein -- Monsters and metaphors / Mary Hammond -- Fans -- How to tell the difference between production and consumption / Alan McKee -- Trainspotting The Avengers / Toby Miller -- Star Trek, Heaven's Gate, and textual transcendence / Jeffrey Sconce -- A kind of German Star Trek / Eva Vieth.