Art Cinema

Over 500 of the most creative, innovative and provocative films ever are examined, along with the auteurs, artists, mavericks, visionaries and iconoclasts behind them. This compendium of art cinema contextualizes the development and history of film as art. Debate over cinema's credibility as an art form is as old as the medium itself, and largely defined in terms of formal, psychological, ideological, social, or auteurist theories. To explore how artists are also using the medium to investigate a wider range of aesthetic issues that are generally related to modern and contemporary art practices, this book is broken down into 10 subgenres, including abstraction, collage, appropriation, post-surrealism, structuralism, duration, parody, and expanded cinema.