American Smart Cinema (Traditions in World Cinema) Craig Anthony Attaway MU Sinclair School of Nursing

MU Sinclair School of Nursing

In this second book in the humorous

searching desperately for healing

Because of his mysterious past

and wildfire

American Smart Cinema (Traditions in World Cinema) Craig Anthony Attaway MU Sinclair School of NursingAmerican Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly comic and nihilistic effects. Connecting the 'smart' sensibility to issues of expressive irony, generational divide and therapeutic culture, this bold new book describes a recent critical tradition in commercial independent American filmmaking by exploring the unstable tone