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The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies
Michael Goddard
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Hardback. "A Wallflower Press Book, Published by Columbia University Press"--Title page verso. Series: Directors' Cuts. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Raul Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out on this task by mapping, as fully as possible, Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades of prolific work, up to his death in 2011; ranging from his earliest work in Chile to high-budget 'European' costume dramas culminating in Mysteries of Lisbon (2010). It does so by treating Ruiz's work-with its surrealist, magic realist, popular cultural, and neo-Baroque sources-as a type of 'impossible' cinematic cartography, ... Read more
Raul Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out on this task by mapping, as fully as possible, Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades of prolific work, up to his death in 2011; ranging from his earliest work in Chile to high-budget 'European' costume dramas culminating in Mysteries of Lisbon (2010). It does so by treating Ruiz's work-with its surrealist, magic realist, popular cultural, and neo-Baroque sources-as a type of 'impossible' cinematic cartography, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Directors' Cuts
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231167307
SKU
V9780231167307
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About Michael Goddard
Michael Goddard is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Salford, UK. His recent research centers on audiovisual media cultures and media theory; currently he is researching radical media ecologies in the 1970s.
Reviews for The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies
Michael Goddard's erudite new book is among the finest of contemporary film director studies to be published in recent years. It is a bold, authoritative and compelling survey of a career famously difficult to capture. Combining important and enriching context, engaging film analysis and a convincing central thesis, Goddard delivers his survey with a brio of which its subject would ... Read more