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FILM THEORY AND SURVEYS

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The Shoestring Publisher

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Paperback, 5.75 x 9.25 in. / 616 pgs / 300 color / 100 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 144   

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ISBN 9788190472081 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $49.95 GBP £30.00

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America: Films from Elsewhere

Edited with introduction by Shanay Jhaveri. Text by Adam Nayman, Adrian Martin, Benjamin Mercer, Clare Davies, Corina Copp, Ed Halter, Elena Gorfinkel, Erika Balsom, Federico Windhausen, Hilton Als, James Quandt, Jim Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Julian Ross, Leo Goldsmith & Rachael Rakes, Nicole Brenez, Nora M. Alter, Rachel Dwyer, Vic Brooks.

America: Films from Elsewhere

"A generously illustrated, wide-ranging selection of essays on American films helmed by non-American filmmakers.” ­–Film Comment

The cities, landscapes and people of America have been the subject of many a film, but when seen through an outsider’s perspective, new and often significant aspects of its culture are revealed. America: Films from Elsewhere examines film and America from the perspective of auteurs from around the world—from anyplace but America—covering the half-century from the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 to the election of Donald Trump in 2017. Masters of the medium such as Chantal Akerman, Joyce Wieland, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lars von Trier, Jacques Demy, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Chris Marker are discussed, alongside lesser-known greats such as Yolande du Luart and Babette Mangolte. The book also features specially commissioned portfolios by artists, including Camille Henrot, Harun Farocki, Lucy Raven, the Otolith Group and Ute Aurand.


Featured image, from 'Rat Life and Diet in North America' by Joyce Wieland, is reproduced from 'America: Films from Elsewhere.'

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Film Comment

A generously illustrated, wide- ranging selection of essays on American films helmed by non- American filmmakers.

Artforum

Max Nelson

America: Films from Elsewhere, an inspired new anthology edited by Shanay Jhaveri about films that depict or imagine the US from an outsider’s point of view.

Midwest Book Review

Carl Logan

A unique, impressively informative, exceptionally insightful, and inherently thought-provoking volume of commentary.

Cineaste

Steve Erickson

America films from Elsewhere describes a country that has mythologized itself to death, but is open to outsiders' critical takes on that mythology...

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REILLY DAVIDSON | DATE 8/22/2019

Monumental 'America: Films from Elsewhere' is new from The Shoestring Publisher

Monumental 'America: Films from Elsewhere' is new from The Shoestring Publisher

America: Films from Elsewhere is a beautifully-designed, 616-page survey of cinematic interrogations of American culture, people and systems by auteurs outside of the States. Spanning Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier, the comprehensive scope of this study seeks to uncloud the mystique of Hollywood, explore the world’s most dominant capitalist empire and uncover intranational secrets from the perspective of filmmakers from elsewhere. A certain undercurrent also implicates the reader in a consideration of national identity and global unity, while texts by contributors such as Adam Nayman, Clare Davies, Corina Copp, Ed Halter, Elena Gorfinkel, Hilton Als, James Quandt, Jim Hoberman, Rachel Dwyer and Vic Brooks all work in service of the question, “What is America?” Featured image is from Pablo Larraín’s Jackie, starring Natalie Portman. continue to blog


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/30/2019

'Another Country: Outsider Visions of America' film series organizers Thomas Beard and Shanay Jhaveri in conversation and signing at Lincoln Center

'Another Country: Outsider Visions of America' film series organizers Thomas Beard and Shanay Jhaveri in conversation and signing at Lincoln Center

Thursday, August 8 at 7 PM, Film at Lincoln Center presents Another Country: Outsider Visions of America co-organizers Thomas Beard and Shanay Jhaveri (editor of America: Films from Elsewhere) for a wide-ranging discussion of the series, the representation of America by foreign and immigrant auteurs, and more. Books will be available for sale and for signing after the talk, and throughout the series.
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