Description: Further DetailsTitle: Refocus: the Films of Alejandro JodorowskyCondition: NewEAN: 9781399505949ISBN: 9781399505949Publisher: Edinburgh University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/30/2023Description: Examines the film practice of the Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro JodorowskyThe first scholarly collection dedicated to the films of Alejandro JodorowskyOffers theoretical interpretations from the fields of cinema studies, art history, Latin American studies, gender studies, comparative literature, disability studies, and sound studies, from leading scholars in the fieldIncludes both textual and contextual analysis of Jodorowsky's entire filmographyKnown as the father of the midnight cult movie" and co-founder of the avant-garde Panic movement in France, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky defies all basic categorization. He is known as a provocateur, a performance artist, a visionary filmmaker, a controversial playwright, a philosopher, and a tarot reader, among other disparate classifications. These varied dimensions of artist and filmmaker converge seamlessly into his practice. He is recognized by audiences as a creator of controversial and mesmerizing films characterized by visual delirium, the injection of radical politics and mystical philosophy, and a post-surrealist aesthetics.?ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky pursues an interdisciplinary approach to analyze and contextualize Jodorowsky's films according to a variety of conceptual modalities: from occult and mystical orientations, to the political and decolonial aspects of his major films. This collection examines the formative metaphysical elaborations involved in Jodorowsky's earliest films, his pioneering of a truly unique independent film practice in Mexico, and his emergence and development as a visionary international filmmaker.?"Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmContributor: Michael Witte (Edited by)Author: Michael WitteGenre: Films & TVBook Series: ReFocus: The International Directors SeriesRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Refocus: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Title: Refocus: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
EAN: 9781399505949
ISBN: 9781399505949
Release Date: 09/30/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Contributor: Michael Witte (Edited by)
Genre: Films & TV
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Refocus: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Performing Arts
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Michael Witte
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Refocus: the International Directors Ser.
Format: Hardcover
