American Smart Cinema

by Claire Perkins

American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects.Connecting the 'smart' sensibility to issues of expressive irony, generational divide and therapeutic culture, this bold new book describes a recent critical tradition in commercial-independent American filmmaking by exploring the unstable tone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748679081
• ISBN13: 9780748679089
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher