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Title Exile cinema : filmmakers at work beyond Hollywood / Michael Atkinson, editor
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 217 pages)
Series The SUNY series, horizons of cinema
SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Rockets from East Asia -- 1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tung / Howard Hampton -- 2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun Suzuki / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- 3. Kuala L'Impure: The Cinema of Amir Muhammad / Dennis Lim -- 4. Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kit / B. Kite -- 5. Bong Show: Bong Joon-ho / Ed Park -- pt. 2 On the European Outskirts -- 6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Geoff Andrew -- 7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My Life / Jessica Winter -- 8. Bela Tarr / Jonathan Romney -- 9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski / Michael Atkinson -- 10. Sharunas Bartas / Laura Sinagra -- pt. 3 Documentarians and Mad Scientists -- 11. Ken Jacobs / David Sterritt -- 12. Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold / George Toles -- 13. Ross McElwee / Godfrey Cheshire -- 14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic Comedy / Patricia Aufderbeide -- pt. 4 Lost between Genre and Myth-Making -- 15. Beardo: Jose Mojica Marins / Guy Maddin -- 16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi / Maitland McDonagh -- 17. Guy Maddin / Mark Peranson -- 18. James Fotopoulos / Ed Halter -- 19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have Loved / Graham Fuller -- pt. 5 Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation -- 20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian Borowczyk / David Thompson -- 21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory / Joshua Clover -- 22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles Back / Chuck Stephens -- 23. Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal Akerman / Stuart Klawans
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 movie-head rarely gets a chance to see these marginalized directors' work and often knows about them only through dazzled rumors and rhapsodic hearsay."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Motion pictures -- Developing countries
Motion pictures -- Europe.
Experimental films -- History and criticism
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Experimental films
Motion pictures
Developing countries
Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Atkinson, Michael, 1962-
ISBN 9781435658677
1435658671