ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvMichael Newell Witte,Northridge) Witte, Michael Newell (Lecturer, California State University

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Examines the film practice of the Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro JodorowskyThe first scholarly collection dedicated to the films of Alejandro JodorowskyOffers theoretical interpretations from the fields of cinema studies, art history, Latin American studies, gender studies, comparative literature, disability studies, and sound studies, from leading scholars in the fieldIncludes both textual and contextual analysis of Jodorowsky's entire filmographyKnown 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.?ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky pursues an interdisciplinary approach to analyze and contextualize 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.?"

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-09-14
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt512 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReFocus: The International Directors Series
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399505949

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1. Introduction: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Michael Newell Witte2. Two Tales of Transposed Heads: "La Cravate" and "Org" - Jesse Lerner3. The Panic and/or Freak Aesthetic - Jorge Ayala Blanco (trans. Amy Sara Carroll)4. One of Us: Corpo-Reality and the Disabled Body in the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Peter Sloane5. Prophets and Sinners in the 1970s Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Naomi Lindstrom6. H. P. Blavatsky and Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and Theosophy on Psychomagic in El Topo and The Holy Mountain - Peter Scott Lederer7. Dionysus Resuscitated: Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Florian Zappe8. The Music in The Holy Mountain: A Jodorowskian Sound Machine - Daniel Escoto9. Outlaw Artists and Esoteric Media: International Copyright and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Illicit Media Practice - Andrew Ventimiglia10. Resistance in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre - Alessandra Santos11. Inherit and Repair: Self-erasure and Allegoric Montage in Jodorowsky’s The Caste of Metabarons - Francisco Javier Fresneda-Casado12. Alejandro Jodorowksy, The Unmade, and The Sons of El Topo - Matthew Melia13. Jodorowsky, Psychomagic, and Subjective Destitution - William Egginton14. Talmudist & Kabbalist Practices in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, a Healing Art - Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang