[Frameworks] textbooks

[Chuck Kleinhans]

Here's a forthcoming book on avant garde cinema, out in hardback in November, and paperback a year later


David Andrews, Theorizing Art Cinemas; Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond (Austin: U of Texas Press)

Previous versions of the book's chapters have appeared in Film International, Scope, Jump Cut, and the Oxford anthologyGlobal Art Cinema.


Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: Correcting Art Cinema’s Partial Vision
Part One: Art, Auteurism, and the World
Chapter One. Art as Genre as Canon: Defining “Art Cinema”
Chapter Two. No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory
Chapter Three. From “Foreign Films” to “World Cinema”
Part Two: Formats and Fetishes
Chapter Four. Recovery and Legitimation in the Traditional Art Film
Chapter Five. Losing the Asterisk: A Theory of Cult-Art Cinema
Chapter Six. Revisiting “The Two Avant-Gardes” 
Chapter Seven. Sucking the Mainstream: A Theory of Mainstream Art Cinema 
Part Three: Institutions and Distributions
Chapter Eight. Re-integrating Stardom ( . . . or Technology or Reception or . . . )
Chapter Nine. Art Cinema as Institution, Redux: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies
Chapter Ten. Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory
Epilogue. Beyond, Before Cinephilia
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index



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Chuck Kleinhans
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