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Exile cinema : filmmakers at work beyond Hollywood / Michael Atkinson, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 217 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Rockets from East Asia
- Double Trouble
- Bullet Ballet
- Kuala L’Impure
- A Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kit
- The Bong Show
- On the European Outskirts
- Beyond the Clouds
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Bela Tarr
- Blunt Force Trauma
- Sharunas Bartas
- Documentarians and Mad Scientists
- Ken Jacobs
- A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold
- Ross McElwee
- Judith Helfand
- Lost between Genre and Myth-Making
- The Beardo
- Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi
- Guy Maddin
- James Fotopoulos
- Christopher Munch
- Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation
- Pleasures of the Flesh
- Chris Marker
- Moebius Dragstrip
- The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal Akerman
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780791478615
- 0791478610
- 9781435658677
- 1435658671
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