After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition
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After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States, this book contends that the aesthetic tradition of ambiguity in art cinema can be traced to post-authoritarian conditions and that it is in the context of a transition away from authoritarianism where art cinema aesthetics become legible. Art cinema, then, can be seen as a mode of cinematic practice that is at its core political, as its constitutive ambiguity finds its roots in the rejection of centralized and hierarchical configurations of authority. Ultimately, After Authority proposes a history of art cinema predicated on the potentials, possibilities, and politics of ambiguity.
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LOC Call Number
PN1995.9 .P6 H43 2020
ISBN
9781978806993
Publication Date
2020
Department
Department of English
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
City
News Brunswick
Recommended Citation
Heck, Kalling, "After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition" (2020).