Arthouse : A Novel.
Title:
Arthouse : A Novel.
Author:
DeShell, Jeffrey.
ISBN:
9781573668255
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4Arthouse is an audacious transformation in prose of fourteen modernist films. From film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic-The Professor. While The Professor is reinvented with each new chapter (or film), what remains is DeShell'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's journey sends him from the Southwestern town of Pueblo, Colorado, into the role of rescuer as he aids an attempted-rape victim, and finally to Italy. Ultimately though, The Professor is left alone, struggling to reconcile the real world with his life in cinema.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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