ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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

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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 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

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-31
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt378 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReFocus: The International Directors Series
Antal sidor240
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399505956

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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