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Exile cinema : filmmakers at work beyond Hollywood / Michael Atkinson, editor.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.D44 E97 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema
- The SUNY series, horizons of cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Developing countries.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Europe.
- Experimental films--History and criticism.
- Experimental films.
- Europe.
- Developing countries.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Outside the Shrinking American film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen, geniuses, and apostates roam freely, subject to a relatively minimal degree of corporate industry and spin control. In Exile Cinema, prominent film critics profile the oeuvres of working, thriving international filmmakers-from Bela Tarr to Judith Helfand, from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Guy Maddin to Chantal Akerman and Michele Soavi, from Chris Marker to the newest thresholds of contemporary film. These filmmakers battle the greatest odds a modern artist can face: the opposition of mass culture at large and a medium that requires enormous expenditures in every stage of production and distribution. Naturally, the average American moviehead rarely gets a chance to see these marginalized directors' work and often knows about them only through dazzled rumors and rhapsodic hearsay. Whimsical and deeply subjective, the viewpoints and evangelisms in Exile Cinema will serve as salve for the cineaste's lonesome fury.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Rockets from East Asia 9
- 1 Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tung / Howard Hampton 11
- 2 Bullet Ballet: Seijun Suzuki / Jonathan Rosenbaum 21
- 3 Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir Muhammad / Dennis Lim 27
- 4 A Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kit / B. Kite 41
- 5 The Bong Show: Bong Joon-ho / Ed Park 49
- Part 2 On the European Outskirts 55
- 6 Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Geoff Andrew 57
- 7 Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My Life / Jessica Winter 63
- 8 Bela Tarr / Jonathan Romney 73
- 9 Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski / Michael Atkinson 79
- 10 Sharunas Bartas / Laura Sinagra 87
- Part 3 Documentarians and Mad Scientists 93
- 11 Ken Jacobs / David Sterritt 95
- 12 A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold / George Toles 101
- 13 Ross McElwee / Godfrey Cheshire 111
- 14 Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic Comedy / Patricia Aufderheide 117
- Part 4 Lost between Genre and Myth-Making 123
- 15 The Beardo: Jose Mojica Marins / Guy Maddin 125
- 16 Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi / Maitland McDonagh 131
- 17 Guy Maddin / Mark Peranson 137
- 18 James Fotopoulos / Ed Halter 145
- 19 Christopher Munch: For Those We Have Loved / Graham Fuller 151
- Part 5 Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation 161
- 20 Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian Borowczyk / David Thompson 163
- 21 Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory / Joshua Clover 169
- 22 Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles Back / Chuck Stephens 175
- 23 The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal Akerman / Stuart Klawans 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791473771
- 0791473775
- 9780791473788
- 0791473783
- OCLC:
- 145147083
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