ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Name: ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro JodorowskyAuthor(s): Michael Newell Witte\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399505949, 978-1399505949\nSynopsis\nKnown 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.?\nReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky pursues an interdisciplinary approach to analyze and contextualize Jo.