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Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood

By Michael Atkinson

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0791473775, 9780791473771, 9781435658677
LCC
PN1993.5.D44 E97 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
988 kB (1012210 bytes)
Series
Horizons of Cinema
Pages
217\230
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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