Theorizing Art Cinemas by David Andrews
Ranging across world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema, this book proposes a flexible, inclusive theory of art cinema that emphasizes quality, authorship, and anticommercialism.
Andrews remains acutely attuned to both potential criticisms in his logic by addressing them head-on, while never sliding into overtly academic-speak or rhetoric that could obscure his points, which makes Theorizing Art Cinemas a thrilling revelation from front to back…Andrews provides readers not just with an intricate explanation for various art cinemas, but how such scholarship can best be performed going forward….Andrews clears up complicated, much-debated issues with relative ease. * Slant *
…a thought-provoking amalgamation of relevant theories and an interdisciplinary perspective. This book seems bound to inspire new research, which should move beyond the usual art-cinema suspects of auteurism and the avant-garde. * Film Studies *
…a thought-provoking amalgamation of relevant theories and an interdisciplinary perspective. This book seems bound to inspire new research, which should move beyond the usual art-cinema suspects of auteurism and the avant-garde. * Film Studies *
David Andrews is an independent scholar who has published widely on issues related to art cinema and cult cinema. He is the author of Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in its Contexts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781477302057 |
| ISBN 10 | 1477302050 |
| Title | Theorizing Art Cinemas |
| Author | David Andrews |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Texas Press |
| Year published | 2013-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 309 |
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