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The Films of Jess Franco (Hardcover)
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The Films of Jess Franco (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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The Films of Jess Franco looks at the work of Jesus ""Jess"" Franco
(1930-2013), one of the most prolific and madly inventive
filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is best known as the
director of jazzy, erotically charged horror movies featuring mad
scientists, lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but he also
dabbled in a multitude of genres from comedy to science fiction to
pornography. Although he built his career in the ghetto of
low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed to create a body of work
that is deeply personal, frequently political, and surprisingly
poetic. Editors Antonio Lazaro-Reboll and Ian Olney have assembled
a team of scholars to examine Franco's offbeat films, which command
an international cult following and have developed a more
mainstream audience in recent years. Arguing that his multifaceted,
paradoxical cinema cannot be pinned down by any one single
approach, this edited volume features twelve original essays on
Franco's movies written from a variety of different perspectives.
This collection does not avoid the methodologies most commonly used
in the past to analyze Franco's work-auteur criticism, genre
criticism, and cult film criticism-yet it does show how Franco's
films complicate these critical approaches. The contributors open
up fresh avenues for academic inquiry by considering his oeuvre
from a range of viewpoints, including transnational film studies,
cinephilia studies, and star studies. The Films of Jess Franco
seeks to address the scholarly neglect of this legendary cult
director and to broaden the conversation around the director's work
in ways that will be of interest to fans and academics alike.
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