Theorizing Art Cinemas - 9780292747746

Theorizing Art CinemasForeign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond\nAuthor(s): David Andrews\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292747746, 978-0292747746\nSynopsis\nThe term art cinema has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film dart 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 notion of art cinema on its head, Theorizing Art Cinemas takes a flexible, inclusive approach that views art cinema as a predictable way of valuing movies as art movies-an activity that has occurred across film history and across film subcultures-rather than as a traditional genre in the sense of a distinct set of forms or a closed historical period or movement.\n\nDavid Andrews opens with a history of the art cinema super-genre from the early days of silent.