"Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories" ed. by Rosalind Galt, Karl Schoonover

This book brings into focus art cinema's core internationalism, demonstrating its centrality to understanding film as a global phenomenon. The book reassesses the field of art cinema in light of recent scholarship on world film cultures. In addition to analysis of key regions and films, the essays cover topics including theories of the film image; industrial, aesthetic, and political histories; and art film's intersections with debates on genre, sexuality, new media forms, and postcolonial cultures.






"Art cinema" has for over fifty years defined how audiences and critics imagine film outside Hollywood, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to the concept since the 1970s. And yet in the last thirty years art cinema has flourished worldwide. The emergence of East Asian and Latin American new waves, the reinvigoration of European film, the success of Iranian directors, and the rise of the film festival have transformed the landscape of world cinema.
Global Art Cinema brings together a diverse group of scholars in a timely conversation that reaffirms the category of art cinema as relevant, provocative, and, in fact, fundamental to contemporary film studies.

Contents
Foreword - Dudley Andrew
Contributors
Introduction: The Impurity of Art Cinema - Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover
Part I. Delimiting the Field
1. Beyond Europe: On Parametric Transcendence - Mark Betz
2. Pink Art Cinema from Stalin to Bush - Sharon Hayashi
3. Toward an Inclusive, Exclusive Approach to Art Cinema - David Andrews
4. Unthinking Heterocentrism: Bisexual Representability in Art Cinema - Maria San Filippo
5. Interactive Art Cinema: Between “Old” and “New” Media with Un Chien andalou and eXistenZ - Adam Lowenstein
Part II. The Art Cinema Image
6. Art/Cinema and Cosmopolitanism Today - Brian Price
7. Between Auditorium and Gallery: Perception in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Films and Installations - Jihoon Kim
8. Pasolini’s Exquisite Flowers: The “ Cinema of Poetry ” as a Theory of Art Cinema - John David Rhodes
9. From Index to Figure in the European Art Film: The Case of The Conformist - Angelo Restivo
10. Surrealism in Art and Film: Face and Time - Angela Dalle Vacche
Part III. Art Cinema Histories
11. The Volcano and the Barren Hill: Gabriel Figueroa and the Space of Art Cinema - Patrick Keating
12. The Essay Film as a Cinema of Ideas - Timothy Corrigan
13. The Cloud-Capped Star: Ritwik Ghatak on the Horizon of Global Art Cinema - Manishita Dass
14. Notes on Art Cinema and the Emergence of Sub-Saharan Film - Philip Rosen
15. Disentangling the International Festival Circuit: Genre and Iranian Cinema - Azadeh Farahmand
Part IV. Geopolitical Intersections
16. European Art Cinema, Affect, and Postcolonialism: Herzog, Denis, and the Dardenne Brothers - E. Ann Kaplan
17. Offering Tales They Want to Hear: Transnational European Film Funding as Neo-Orientalism - Randall Halle
18. Abderrahmane Sissako: Second and Third Cinema in the First Person - Rachel Gabara
19. Tsai Ming-liang’s Haunted Movie Theater - Jean Ma
20. Traveling Theory, Shots, and Players: Jorge Sanjinés, New Latin American Cinema, and the European Art Film - Dennis Hanlon
Critical Bibliography
Index