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Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot. He is also an auteur filmmaker who garnered attention with his breakthrough film El Topo in 1970. He has been called a “cult” filmmaker, whose films are surreal, hallucinatory, and provocative. The Transformative Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky explores the ways in which Jodorowsky's films are transformative in a psychologically therapeutic way. It also examines his signature style, which includes the symbolic meaning of various colors in which he clothes his actors, the use of his own family members in the films, and his casting of himself in leading roles. This total involvement of himself and his family in his auteur films led to his psycho-therapeutic theories and practices: metagenealogy and psychomagic. This book is the only the second book in the English language in print that deals with all of Jodorowsky's films, beginning with his earliest mime film in 1957 and ending with his 2019 film on psychomagic. It also connects his work as a writer and therapist to his films, which themselves attempt to obliterate the line between fantasy and reality.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements 1. Re-Appraising Alejandro Jodorowsky's Cinema 2. A Brief Summary of the Life and Times of Alejandro Jodorowsky 3. In the Beginning: La Cravate (1957) and Fando y Lis (1968) 4. The Birth of a Cult: El Topo (1970) 5. The Ascent of and the Descent from The Holy Mountain (1973) 6. The Interregnum: Dune (1974-76), Tusk (1980), The Rainbow Thief (1990) plus Jodorowsky's Comics/Graphic Novels 7. The Auteur Reborn: Santa Sangre (1989) 8. A Magical Childhood: La danza de realidad (The Dance of Reality 2013) 9. An Absurd Youth: Poesía sin fin (Poetry without End 2016) 10. The Therapist on Film: Psychomagic, A Healing Art (2019) 11. Jodorowsky Redux: Evaluating the Art of a Fabulist Filmography Bibliography Index

About the Author :
George Melnyk is Professor Emeritus of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary, Canada. His research interest is the auteur film maker and how the cultural grammars of their lives find their way into their films.

Review :
Melnyk has provided the first complete and up-to-date overview of the beloved and notorious cult director's cinema, with vivid insights into the personal style and themes of this complex and sometimes maddening avant-garde auteur of the outlandish. Alejandro Jodorowsky's cinema has long been associated with esoteric mysticism and shockingly surreal imagery-but in this accessible new volume, George Melnyk steps back from Jodorowsky the cult provocateur to refocus our attention on Jodorowsky the therapeutic auteur. By connecting his early films to his late-career revival, Melnyk deftly explores the autobiographical themes of family, spirituality, and healing that have made Jodorowsky such an intriguingly idiosyncratic and underappreciated figure in world cinema.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781501378799
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1501378791
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jan 2023
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 208


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