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Stranger Than Paradise
Jamie Sexton
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Description for Stranger Than Paradise
Paperback. Series: Cultographies. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 109. Weight in Grams: 454.
A low-budget breakout film that wowed critics and audiences on its initial release, Stranger than Paradise would prove to be a seminal film in the new American independent cinema movement and establish its director, Jim Jarmusch, as a hip, cult auteur. Taking inspiration from 1960s underground filmmaking, international art cinema, genre cinema, and punk culture, Jarmusch's film provides a bridge between midnight movie features and a new mode of quirky, offbeat independent filmmaking. This book probes the film's production history, initial reception, aesthetics, and legacy in order to understand its place within the cult film canon. In examining the film's ... Read more
A low-budget breakout film that wowed critics and audiences on its initial release, Stranger than Paradise would prove to be a seminal film in the new American independent cinema movement and establish its director, Jim Jarmusch, as a hip, cult auteur. Taking inspiration from 1960s underground filmmaking, international art cinema, genre cinema, and punk culture, Jarmusch's film provides a bridge between midnight movie features and a new mode of quirky, offbeat independent filmmaking. This book probes the film's production history, initial reception, aesthetics, and legacy in order to understand its place within the cult film canon. In examining the film's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
Cultographies
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231180559
SKU
V9780231180559
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About Jamie Sexton
Jamie Sexton is senior lecturer in film and television studies at Northumbria University. He is the co-author of Cult Cinema (2011).
Reviews for Stranger Than Paradise
This volume [is] the first book length study of an important and frequently taught art-cult movie. Arguing that Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise didn't come to cult status in the usual way, the volume makes an important intervention in the way we define cult movies and assign cult status, and an intervention in the way we frame the entire ... Read more