Theorizing Art Cinemas : : Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond / / David Andrews.

The term “art cinema” has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d’art movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new waves, the New Hollywood, and American indie films, but until now no one has actually defined what “art cinema” is. Turning the traditional, highbrow noti...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (309 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Correcting Art Cinema’s Partial Vision
  • Part 1 Art, Auteurism, and the World
  • Chapter 1 Art as Genre as Canon: Defining “Art Cinema”
  • Chapter 2 No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory
  • Chapter 3 From “Foreign Films” to “World Cinema”
  • Part 2 Formats and Fetishes
  • Chapter 4 Recovery and Legitimation in the Traditional Art Film
  • Chapter 5 Losing the Asterisk: A Theory of Cult-Art Cinema
  • Chapter 6 Revisiting “The Two Avant-Gardes”
  • Chapter 7 Sucking the Mainstream: A Theory of Mainstream Art Cinema
  • Part Three. Institutions and Distributions
  • Chapter 8 Re-integrating Stardom (. . . or Technology or Reception or . . .)
  • Chapter 9 Art Cinema as Institution, Redux: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies
  • Chapter 10 Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory
  • Epilogue Beyond, Before Cinephilia
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index