ReFocus : the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky / edited by Michael Newell Witte.
"Known 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 categorisation. He is known as a provocateur, a performance artist, a visionary filmmaker, a controversial playwright, a philo...
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| Other title: | Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | ReFocus: the international directors series.
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| Summary: | "Known 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 categorisation. 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 recognised by audiences as a creator of controversial and mesmerising films characterised by visual delirium, the injection of radical politics and mystical philosophy and a post-surrealist aesthetics. ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky pursues an interdisciplinary approach to analyse and contextualise Jodorowsky's films according to a variety of conceptual modalities: from occult and mystical orientations, to the political and decolonial aspects of his major films. This collection examines the formative metaphysical elaborations involved in Jodorowsky's earliest films, his pioneering of a truly unique independent film practice in Mexico and his emergence and development as a visionary international filmmaker."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781399505949 1399505947 |
| Language: | English with one contribution translated from Spanish. |