Theory on Avant-garde Film Directors

Author: Xiao Sen
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: In this slim volume, Xiao Sen analyzes avant-garde directors and avant-garde cinema from the perspective of world film history. He covers everyone and everything—David Fincher, "Fight Club," Alan Parker, "Birdman," David Lynch, "The Straight Story," Coen's genre films, and even Hollywood's Wong Kar-wai, Stephen Chow, "Chungking Express," "Titanic," and "Run Lola Run"—without leaving anything out. He discusses them with such expertise, as if serving readers a lavish cinematic feast. Particularly from the standpoint of human nature and cultural critique, he delivers a powerful critique of Hollywood's mechanized mass production, formulaic cloning, profit-driven mentality, decline, commercialization, and loss of artistic integrity. For film enthusiasts, this is no less than an entry-level "Bible of the Avant-Garde."