Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
Contents |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Sátántangó; Thunder Road; Branded to Kill; Grand Illusion; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Shoah; Tokyo Story; Shame; Fellini Satyricon; A Man and a Woman; The Conformist; Contempt; Berlin Alexanderplatz |
Summary |
Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen modernist films. From film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic & mdash;The Professor. While The Professor is reinvented with each new chapter (or film), what remains is DeShell & rsquo;s inventive deconstruction and representation of modern cinema. At times borrowing imagery, plot, or character elements, and at times rendering lighting, rhythm, costuming, or shot sequences into fictional language, The Professor & rsquo;s journey sends him from the Southwestern town of Pueblo, Colorado, into the |
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Print version record |
Subject |
College teachers -- Fiction
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Film critics -- Fiction
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Motion pictures -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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College teachers
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Film critics
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Motion pictures
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Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781573668255 |
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1573668257 |
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