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