Stranger Than Paradise (eBook)

Jamie Sexton (Autor)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-85102-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book probes the production history, initial reception, aesthetics, and legacy of Jim Jarmusch'sStranger than Paradise in order to understand its place in the cult film canon. It explores early-1980s New York downtown culture and Jarmusch's involvement in music as well as reflecting on the film's status alongside Jarmusch's subsequent output.

Jamie Sexton is senior lecturer in film and television studies at Northumbria University. He is the coauthor of Cult Cinema (2011).

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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 cult pedigree, it explores a number of threads that fed into the film-including New York downtown culture of the early 1980s and Jarmusch's involvement in music-as well as reflecting on how the film's status has developed alongside Jarmusch's subsequent output and reputation.

Inhalt

Introduction: Stranger Than Paradise, Video, Television, and I1. Production and Initial Reception2. Film Analysis3. Subsequent Reception4. Status as a Cult FilmNotesReferencesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Cultographies
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-231-85102-2 / 0231851022
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-85102-2 / 9780231851022