Arthouse

An audacious transformation in prose of fourteen Modernist filmsFrom film to film, Jeffrey DeShell follows a forty-something failed film studies academic The Professor. While The Professor is reinvented with each new chapter (or film), what remains is DeShell s inventive deconstruction and representation of modern cinema. At times borrowing imagery, plot, or character elements, and at times rendering lighting, rhythm, costuming, or shot sequences into fictional language, The Professor s journey sends him from the Southwestern town of Pueblo, Colorado, into the role of rescuer as he aids an attempted-rape victim, and finally to Italy. Ultimately though, The Professor is left alone, struggling to reconcile the real world with his life in cinema.