ABSTRACT
In public discourse, Crispin Glover is orientated to the reader/viewer via mainstream Hollywood, but as that fabricated exchange with a subcultural online star illustrates, this too occurs through cult discourse. The quality and box-office success of the mainstream work and how it utilises the cult screen personality of ‘Crispin Glover’ declines as his personal pursuit of surrealist projects increases. The intensity and acute characterisation of Glover’s acting remains key to the actor’s cult status, negating the very mainstream work he has undertaken. Glover uses the term ‘corporate’ when talking about the mainstream Hollywood industry and modes of production, distribution and exhibition. The juxtaposition of Glover’s cult, offbeat identity with his firm control over all elements of production suggests almost a cult parody of the classical mogul. The majority of Glover’s responses to questions across his interviews are remarkably similar, often literally word-for-word.
