America : films from elsewhere / edited by Shanay Jhaveri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jhaveri, Shanay, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures.

Foreign films.

United States--In motion pictures--History and criticism.

United States.

Foreign films--United States--History and criticism.

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

615 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mumbai : Shoestring Publisher, [2019]

Contents:

America: leave me alone / Shanay Jhaveri

Staring at US: Chris Marker's America / Nora M. Alter

The Manhattan distance: Joyce Wieland targets America / Vic Brooks

I only want you to love me / Hilton Als

Here comes the night: Jacques Demy's MODEL SHOP / James Quandt

GREED and other fantasies: American corruptions viewed by Europeans / Jonathan Rosenbaum

Cross-dissolve / Lucy Raven

Here we go again: the double life of Paul Verhoeven / Adam Nayman

Bollywood and America: an overview / Rachel Dwyer

CITIES OF Ys: beginnings and endings / Camille Henrot

The camera as a drawing instrument / Rosa Barba

Uncanny Valley: the desert terrain of Zabriskie Point and Valley of Love / Benjamin Mercer

The desertification of discourse: Punishment Park / Leo Goldsmith & Rachael Rakes

Research notes and still from To Be Here / Ute Aurand

Terra incognita: Babette Mangolte's The Sky on Location / Erika Balsom

Nowhere in mind: Chantal Akerman's New York films / Corina Copp

All was endless movement: the cinematic image of Amerika in Kafka and Straub-Huillet / Federico Windhausen

The person or the thing which attains to the ground of anything: the Otolith Group's The Third Part of the Third Measure

Zeina Durra In conversation with Negar Azimi

Night Noon / Shambhavi Kaul

America, America, America: Japanese artists in the United States in the sixties and seventies / Julian Ross

Yolande du Luart, activist filmmaker / Nicole Brenez

Selected fragments / Tacita Dean

Transactional analysis: the American films of Nick Broomfield / Ed Halter

Things happen: Raúl Ruiz's impressions of North America / Adrian Martin

Emily Jacir: I am still here / Clare Davies

Dossier: Harun Farocki's Prison Images

Dogville: Un-American or Too American? / J. Hoberman

We're visiting different apartments / Vivienne Dick

Attachment road: No Sex Last Night and American Honey / Elena Gorfinkel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A fascinating exploration of the United States of America from an outsider's perspective through films made in or on the US by non-Americans."--Cover page [4].

ISBN:

9788190472081

8190472089

OCLC:

1061092210

Publisher Number:

99982434684