Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Introduction: correcting art cinema's partial vision -- pt. 1. art, auteurism, and the world -- art as genre as canon: defining "art cinema" -- no start, no end: auteurism and the auteur theory -- from "foreign films" to "world cinema" -- pt. 2. formats and fetishes -- recovery and legitimation in the traditional art film -- losing the asterisk: a theory of cult-art cinema -- revisiting "the two avant-gardes" -- sucking the mainstream: a theory of mainstream art cinema -- pt. 3. institutions and distributions -- re-integrating stardom (... or technology or reception or ...) -- art cinema as institution, redux: art houses, film festivals, and film studies -- art cinema, the distribution theory -- epilogue. beyond, before cinephilia.
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