{"product_id":"refocus-michael-witte-9781399505949","title":"Refocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReFocus: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Witte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399505947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399505949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Michael Witte","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44410580304127,"sku":"9781399505949","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59fde0ed-a930-4a15-a686-aecc085137b3.jpg?v=1697536842","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/refocus-michael-witte-9781399505949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}