{"product_id":"theorizing-art-cinemas-9781477302057","title":"Theorizing Art Cinemas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRanging across world cinema, avant-garde films, experimental films, and cult cinema, this book proposes a flexible, inclusive theory of art cinema that emphasizes quality, authorship, and anticommercialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndrews remains acutely attuned to both potential criticisms in his logic by addressing them head-on, while never sliding into overtly academic-speak or rhetoric that could obscure his points, which makes \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Art Cinemas\u003c\/i\u003e a thrilling revelation from front to back….Andrews provides readers not just with an intricate explanation for various art cinemas, but how such scholarship can best be performed going forward….Andrews clears up complicated, much-debated issues with relative ease. * Slant *\u003cbr\u003e…a thought-provoking amalgamation of relevant theories and an interdisciplinary perspective. This book seems bound to inspire new research, which should move beyond the usual art-cinema suspects of auteurism and the avant-garde. * Film Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Correcting Art Cinema’s Partial Vision\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: Art, Auteurism, and the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One. Art as Genre as Canon: Defining “Art Cinema”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two. No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three. From “Foreign Films” to “World Cinema”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: Formats and Fetishes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four. Recovery and Legitimation in the Traditional Art Film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five. Losing the Asterisk: A Theory of Cult-Art Cinema\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Six. Revisiting “The Two Avant-Gardes”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Seven. Sucking the Mainstream: A Theory of Mainstream Art Cinema\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three: Institutions and Distributions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Eight. Re-integrating Stardom ( . . . or Technology or Reception or . . . )\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Nine. Art Cinema as Institution, Redux: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Ten. Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue. Beyond, Before Cinephilia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFilmography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408941261143,"sku":"9781477302057","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477302057.jpg?v=1730504791","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theorizing-art-cinemas-9781477302057","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}