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Theorizing Art Cinemas : Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond /

He term "art cinema" has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d'art movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new waves, the New Hollywood, and American indie films, but until now no one has actually defined what "art cinema" is. Turning the tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrews, David, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: correcting art cinema's partial vision
  • pt. 1. art, auteurism, and the world
  • art as genre as canon: defining "art cinema"
  • no start, no end: auteurism and the auteur theory
  • from "foreign films" to "world cinema"
  • pt. 2. formats and fetishes
  • recovery and legitimation in the traditional art film
  • losing the asterisk: a theory of cult-art cinema
  • revisiting "the two avant-gardes"
  • sucking the mainstream: a theory of mainstream art cinema
  • pt. 3. institutions and distributions
  • re-integrating stardom (... or technology or reception or ...)
  • art cinema as institution, redux: art houses, film festivals, and film studies
  • art cinema, the distribution theory
  • epilogue. beyond, before cinephilia.