Arthouse

“An avant-noir tour de force, Jeffrey DeShell’s Arthouse is an architecturally stunning exploration of how we are all thought by cinema. Peopled by tweakers, dealers, killers, a woman hostage, and an ex-con academic, set in a blasted corner of the New West, and shot through the lenses of fourteen films, this extraordinary novel appropriates and celebrates a multiplicity of filmic vocabularies and points of view, even as it turns family into a Fellini, sex into a Suzuki, and the world into a series of eccentric angles, incommensurate scripts, and beautiful, stylized, joco-serious, self-reflexive textual double exposures.”
—Lance Olsen, author of Calendar of Regrets
 

“Arthouse is a successful series of sketches, cleverly presented in fourteen unique ways—an interesting, ambitious book and highly recommended for the adventurous, cinematically inclined reader.”
—Rain Taxi