| The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism Contributor(s): Kappelhoff, Hermann (Author), Hendrickson, Daniel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231170726 ISBN-13: 9780231170727 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Art | Film & Video |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2014048922 |
| Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Art |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almod var, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society. Kappelhoff applies the Deleuzean practice of "thinking in images" to his analysis of films and incorporates the approaches of Jacques Ranci re and Richard Rorty, who see politics in the permanent reconfiguration of poetic forms. This enables him to conceptualize film as a medium that continually renews the audiovisual spaces and temporalities through which audiences confront reality. Revitalizing the reading of films by Visconti, Fassbinder, Kubrick, Friedkin, and others, Kappelhoff affirms cinema's historical significance while discovering its engagement with politics as a realm of experience. |
