| After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition Contributor(s): Heck, Kalling (Author) |
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ISBN: 1978806981 ISBN-13: 9781978806986 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism - Art | Film & Video |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2019008416 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 9" (0.55 lbs) 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States, this book contends that the aesthetic tradition of ambiguity in art cinema can be traced to post-authoritarian conditions and that it is in the context of a transition away from authoritarianism where art cinema aesthetics become legible. Art cinema, then, can be seen as a mode of cinematic practice that is at its core political, as its constitutive ambiguity finds its roots in the rejection of centralized and hierarchical configurations of authority. Ultimately, After Authority proposes a history of art cinema predicated on the potentials, possibilities, and politics of ambiguity. |