Chapter 10 Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction. Correcting Art Cinema’s Partial Vision 1
6. Part 1 Art, Auteurism, and the World
7. Chapter 1 Art as Genre as Canon: Defining “Art Cinema” 19
8. Chapter 2 No Start, No End: Auteurism and the Auteur Theory 35
9. Chapter 3 From “Foreign Films” to “World Cinema” 56
10. Part 2 Formats and Fetishes
11. Chapter 4 Recovery and Legitimation in the Traditional Art Film 75
12. Chapter 5 Losing the Asterisk: A Theory of Cult-Art Cinema 95
13. Chapter 6 Revisiting “The Two Avant-Gardes” 114
14. Chapter 7 Sucking the Mainstream: A Theory of Mainstream Art Cinema 140
15. Part Three. Institutions and Distributions
16. Chapter 8 Re-integrating Stardom (. . . or Technology or Reception or . . .) 157
17. Chapter 9 Art Cinema as Institution, Redux: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies 172
18. Chapter 10 Art Cinema, the Distribution Theory 191
19. Epilogue Beyond, Before Cinephilia 208
20. Notes 215
21. Filmography 247
22. Bibliography 257
23. Index 273