The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy
Item Number
PN1995
Author/Artist/Editor
Robert B. Ray
Type
Book, Hard Copy
Date
1995
Press/Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Description
This book about the Andy Hardy film and character proposes that alternative ways of thinking and writing about the movies can be derived from the huamanaties' equivalent of science's pure research--the avant-garde arts. Drawing on the Surrealist tradition, with its use of games, chance, fragments, anecdotes, and collage, Ray invents for film studies new forms of research that imitate the cognitive habits encouraged by photography, computers, and the cinema itself. In doing so, he reveals that even the Andy Hardy movies, a routine product of the Hollywood Studio System, were, after all, rich and mysterious.
Keywords
Avant-garde, Film, Andy Hardy
ISSN/ISBN
0-674-05538-1
Availability
Available
OCLC
32346217