The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
(Part of the Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Series)
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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.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231170734
ISBN13:9780231170734
Release Date:August 2015
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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