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Overview
David Andrews opens with a history of the art cinema "super-genre" from the early days of silent movies to the postwar European invasion that brought Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and the New German Cinema to the forefront and led to the development of auteur theory. He then discusses the mechanics of art cinema, from art houses, film festivals, and the academic discipline of film studies, to the audiences and distribution systems for art cinema as a whole. This wide-ranging approach allows Andrews to develop a theory that encompasses both the high and low ends of art cinema in all of its different aspects, including world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema. All of these art cinemas, according to Andrews, share an emphasis on quality, authorship, and anticommercialism, whether the film in question is film festival favorite or a midnight movie.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781477302057 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 11/01/2014 |
Pages: | 309 |
Product dimensions: | 8.90(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
David Andrews is an independent scholar who has published widely on issues related to art cinema and cult cinema. He is the author or editor of three books, including Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Correcting Art Cinema's Partial Vision
Part One: Art, Auteurism, and the World
Chapter One. Art as Genre as Canon: Defining "Art Cinema"
Chapter Two. No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory
Chapter Three. From "Foreign Films" to "World Cinema"
Part Two: Formats and Fetishes
Chapter Four. Recovery and Legitimation in the Traditional Art Film
Chapter Five. Losing the Asterisk: A Theory of Cult-Art Cinema
Chapter Six. Revisiting "The Two Avant-Gardes"
Chapter Seven. Sucking the Mainstream: A Theory of Mainstream Art Cinema
Part Three: Institutions and Distributions
Chapter Eight. Re-integrating Stardom ( . . . or Technology or Reception or . . . )
Chapter Nine. Art Cinema as Institution, Redux: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies
Chapter Ten. Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory
Epilogue. Beyond, Before Cinephilia
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index