ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0595-6 (ISBN)
Known as the father of the "midnight cult movie" and co-founder of the avant-garde Panic movement in France, Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky defies all basic categorization. He is known as a provocateur, a performance artist, a visionary filmmaker, a controversial playwright, a philosopher, and a tarot reader, among other disparate classifications. These varied dimensions of artist and filmmaker converge seamlessly into his practice. He is recognized by audiences as a creator of controversial and mesmerizing films characterized by visual delirium, the injection of radical politics and mystical philosophy, and a post-surrealist aesthetics.
ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky pursues an interdisciplinary approach to analyze and contextualize Jodorowsky’s films according to a variety of conceptual modalities: from occult and mystical orientations, to the political and decolonial aspects of his major films. This collection examines the formative metaphysical elaborations involved in Jodorowsky’s earliest films, his pioneering of a truly unique independent film practice in Mexico, and his emergence and development as a visionary international filmmaker.
Michael Newell Witte is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of San Diego. His research explores neo-avant-garde art and theory, dissident and ethnographic surrealism, and global contemporary art and film. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (2023) and co-author of the exhibition catalogue Todo está perdido: Juan José Gurrola (2023).
1. Introduction: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Michael Newell Witte
2. Two Tales of Transposed Heads: "La Cravate" and "Org" - Jesse Lerner
3. The Panic and/or Freak Aesthetic - Jorge Ayala Blanco (trans. Amy Sara Carroll)
4. One of Us: Corpo-Reality and the Disabled Body in the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Peter Sloane
5. Prophets and Sinners in the 1970s Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Naomi Lindstrom
6. H. P. Blavatsky and Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and Theosophy on Psychomagic in El Topo and The Holy Mountain - Peter Scott Lederer
7. Dionysus Resuscitated: Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Florian Zappe
8. The Music in The Holy Mountain: A Jodorowskian Sound Machine - Daniel Escoto
9. Outlaw Artists and Esoteric Media: International Copyright and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Illicit Media Practice - Andrew Ventimiglia
10. Resistance in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre - Alessandra Santos
11. Inherit and Repair: Self-erasure and Allegoric Montage in Jodorowsky’s The Caste of Metabarons - Francisco Javier Fresneda-Casado
12. Alejandro Jodorowksy, The Unmade, and The Sons of El Topo - Matthew Melia
13. Jodorowsky, Psychomagic, and Subjective Destitution - William Egginton
14. Talmudist & Kabbalist Practices in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, a Healing Art - Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | ReFocus: The International Directors Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 26 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-0595-5 / 1399505955 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-0595-6 / 9781399505956 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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