The UNM Bookstore invites everyone to attend a book talk and signing with Ira Jaffe, author of “Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films.” The event starts at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16 at the UNM Bookstore.
Through close readings of films by U.S. filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Errol Morris, Todd Haynes, and Joel and Ethan Coen, Hollywood Hybrids studies provocative, disorienting strategies of genre mixing in contemporary cinema.
The book also explores foreign parallels to U.S. hybrid cinema in films by such directors as Pedro Almodovar (Spain) and Stephen Chow (Hong Kong). Hollywood Hybrids regards genre mixing as a key creative interest motivating major filmmakers around the globe.
Jaffe is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Media Arts at UNM.