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245 04 The Films of Jess Franco /|cedited by Antonio Lázaro-
Reboll and Ian Olney.
264 1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bWayne State
University Press,|c[2018]
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520 "The Films of Jess Francolooks at the work of Jesús "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 Lázaro-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. The Films of Jess Franco 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. This volume
opens 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 book effectively meets the challenge of
Franco's multidimensional cinema with multifaceted
criticism -- attentive to the shifting historical contexts,
modes of production and consumption, and formats of
Franco's work -- that supplements current Franco
scholarship and suggests exciting new directions for its
further development. 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."--|cProvided by Freading.
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