American Smart Cinema (Traditions in World Cinema) Craig Anthony Attaway While toy collectors and dealers

While toy collectors and dealers will enjoy the variety

Because of his mysterious past

searching desperately for healing

A woman he must protect at all costs

American Smart Cinema (Traditions in World Cinema) Craig Anthony Attaway While toy collectors and dealersAmerican 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