The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Refocus: International Directors) - Softcover

 
9781399505956: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (Refocus: International Directors)

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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.

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Michael Newell Witte is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of San Diego. His research explores neo-avant-garde art and theory, dissident and ethnographic surrealism, and global contemporary art and film. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (2023) and co-author of the exhibition catalogue Todo está perdido: Juan José Gurrola (2023).

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ISBN 10:  1399505947 ISBN 13:  9781399505949
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2023
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