About the Author

The late John Orr was Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and published widely in the areas of modern culture, cinema, theatre and literature. He was also a reviewer for a wide number of periodicals and online journals including Screen, Studies in French Cinema, Film International and Senses of Cinema.

Reviews

Orr gives us an entirely original and invaluable new 'cut' or montage of the last 50 years of auteur filmmaking, the divergent aesthetics within the Hyper-Modern in (largely) Western cinema and its disjunction from the anomalous road taken by the Meta-Modern artists in the East...Orr is as much at home wth Terminator 2 and Copycat as he is with Egoyan, Wong or Wenders. ! Throughout the book Orr's apercus are incisive. When it comes to the Meta-Modern Cinema of Wonder, Orr's hymn to the film-worlds of Angelopolous, Paradjanov and Tarkovsky, most notably his insights regarding the combination of lives viewed at their maximum level of intensity yet within a culture of extreme detachment from the ambient Modern world, is note-perfect. Orr gives us an entirely original and invaluable new 'cut' or montage of the last 50 years of auteur filmmaking, the divergent aesthetics within the Hyper-Modern in (largely) Western cinema and its disjunction from the anomalous road taken by the Meta-Modern artists in the East...Orr is as much at home wth Terminator 2 and Copycat as he is with Egoyan, Wong or Wenders. ! Throughout the book Orr's apercus are incisive. When it comes to the Meta-Modern Cinema of Wonder, Orr's hymn to the film-worlds of Angelopolous, Paradjanov and Tarkovsky, most notably his insights regarding the combination of lives viewed at their maximum level of intensity yet within a culture of extreme detachment from the ambient Modern world, is note-perfect.