Rites of Realism (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Corporeal Cinema
Redaktion: Ivone Margulies, Margulies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rites of Realism shifts the discussion of cinematic realism away from the usual focus on verisimilitude and faithfulness of record toward a notion of "e;performative realism,"e; a realism that does not simply represent a given reality but enacts actual social tensions. These essays by a range of film scholars propose stimulating new approaches to the critical evaluation of modern realist films and such referential genres as reenactment, historical film, adaptation, portrait film, and documentary.By providing close readings of classic and contemporary works, Rites of Realism signals the need to return to a focus on films as the main innovators of realist representation. The collection is inspired by Andre Bazin's theories on film's inherent heterogeneity and unique ability to register contingency (the singular, one-time event). This volume features two new translations: of Bazin's seminal essay "e;Death Every Afternoon"e; and Serge Daney's essay reinterpreting Bazin's defense of the long shot as a way to set the stage for a clash or risky confrontation between man and animal. These pieces evince key concerns-particularly the link between cinematic realism and contingency-that the other essays explore further.Among the topics addressed are the provocative mimesis of Luis Bunuel's Land Without Bread; the adaptation of trial documents in Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc; the use of the tableaux vivant by Wim Wenders and Peter Greenaway; and Pier Paolo Pasolini's strategies of analogy in his transposition of The Gospel According to St. Matthew from Palestine to southern Italy. Essays consider the work of filmmakers including Michelangelo Antonioni, Maya Deren, Mike Leigh, Cesare Zavattini, Zhang Yuan, and Abbas Kiarostami.Contributors: Paul Arthur, Andre Bazin, Mark A. Cohen, Serge Daney, Mary Ann Doane, James F. Lastra, Ivone Margulies, Abe Mark Normes, Brigitte Peucker, Richard Porton, Philip Rosen, Catherine Russell, James Schamus, Noa Steimatsky, Xiaobing Tang

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822384618
• Artikelnr.: 54818680

Autorenporträt

Ivone Margulies is Associate Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter College. She is the author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Bodies Too Much / Ivone Margulies 1
Bazinian Contingencies
Death Every Afternoon / André Bazin 27
Translated by Mark A. Cohen
The Screen of Fantasy (Bazin and Animals) / Serge Daney 32
Translated by Mark A. Cohen
History of Image, Image of History: Subject and Ontology in Bazin / Philip
Rosen 42
The Object of Theory / Mary Ann Doane 80
Cultural Indices
No Longer Absolute: Portraiture in American Avant-Garde and Documentary
Films of the Sixties / Paul Arthur 93
In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the
Politics of Vision / Xiaobing Tang 119
Private Reality: Hara Kazou's Films / Abé Mark Nornes 144
Mike Leigh's Modernist Realism / Richard Porton 164
Why Is This Absurd Picture Here? Ethnology/Heterology/Buñuel / James F.
Lastra 185
Retracings
Exemplary Bodies: Reenactment in Love in the City, Sons, and Close Up /
Ivone Margulies 217
Pasolini on Terra Sancta: Towards a Theology of Film / Noa Steimatsky 245
Ecstatic Ethnography: Maya Deren and the Filming of Possession Rituals /
Catherine Russell 270
Filmic Tableau Vivant: Vermeer, Intermediality, and the Real / Brigitte
Peucker 294
Dreyer's Textual Realism / James Schamus 315
Selected Bibliography 325
Contributors 333
Index 337