Global Art Cinema New Theories and Histories [Paperback]

Art cinema has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration of European film, the success of Iranian directors, and the rise of the film festival have transformed the landscape of world cinema. This book brings into focus art cinema's core internationalism, demonstrating its centrality to understanding film as a global phenomenon.

The book reassesses the field of art cinema in light of recent scholarship on world film cultures. In addition to analysis of key regions and films, the essays cover topics including theories of the film image; industrial, aesthetic, and political histories; and art film's intersections with debates on genre, sexuality, new media forms, and postcolonial cultures.Global Art Cinemabrings together a diverse group of scholars in a timely conversation that reaffirms the category of art cinema as relevant, provocative, and, in fact, fundamental to contemporary film studies.

Foreword
Dudley Andrew

Introduction
The Impurity of Art Cinema
Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover

1. Delimiting the Field
Beyond Europe: A Parametric Tradition?
Mark Betz
The Fantastic Trajectory of Pink Art Cinema From Stalin to Bush
Sharon Hayashi
Towards an Inclusive, Exclusive Approach to Art Cinema
David Andrews
Unthinking Heterocentrism: Bisexual Representability in Art Cinema
Maria San Filippo
Interactive Art Cinema: Between Old and New Media with Un Chien andalou and eXistenZ
Adam Lowenstein

2. The Art Cinema Image