IMPURE CINEMA

Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema's int erbreeding with other arts and on the other to its ability to convey and promote cultural diversity. In contemporary progressive fil m criticism, ideas of purity, essence and origin have been superseded by favourable approaches to 'hybridization', 'transnationalism ', 'multiculturalism' and cross-fertilizations of all sorts. Impure Cinema builds on this idea in novel and exciting ways, as it ...