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Camera historica : the century in cinema / Antoine de Baecque ; translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidof.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.2 .B3313 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baecque, Antoine de.
- Series:
- European perspectives
- European perspectives: a series in social thought and cultural criticism
- Standardized Title:
- Histoire-caméra. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures and history.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular miseen-scènc to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the "cinematographic form of history." disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress.
- Antoine de Baecque is a historian and film critic and professor of cinema studies at the University of Paris X Nanterre. His books in English include Truffaut: A Biography; The Body Politics: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800; Glory and Terror; and A History of Democracy in Europe. He has served as culture editor for the newspaper Liberation and as editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Foreclosed Forms: How Images of Mass Death Reemerged in Modern Cinema 31
- The Look-to-Camera: A Modern Form of History 32
- The Gaze of Death in Action 37
- How History Reemerges Through Cinema 44
- Alain Resnais and the Editing of Time 47
- Monsieur Verdoux, or How Chaplin Puts to Death His Inner Wandering Jew 52
- "Faces with Black, Rat-Like Eyes" 56
- Hitchcock and the Indelible Corpse 61
- Man Alone in the Face of the Machine of Death 65
- Mass Death: Neither Reconstruction nor Mise-en-scene 69
- 2 From Versailles to the Silver Screen: Sacha Guitry, Historian of France 77
- "Doing Versailles": Controversial Project and Historical Polemic 79
- Guitry and the Revenge of History 88
- A Certain Vision of History 90
- The Spectacle of Court Society 96
- 3 "Me? Uh, Nothing!": The French New Wave, Politics, and History Hussar Thought 105
- A Cinema "That Has Nothing to Say" 174
- Heroes of the New Wave and Militants of Disarray 178
- PoliticizationviaMalraux 128
- An Intrinsically Political Cinema: Filming Life with Style 132
- The Algerian War: The Intimate Drama of the New Wave 140
- Torture: The Limit Experience of the NewWave 149
- A Political Janus-Face 157
- 4 Peter Watkins, Live From History: The Films, Style, and Method of Cinema's Special Correspondent 159
- Making War Through Making Films 162
- The Time of Filmed Reportage 177
- The Trials and Tribulations of an Exiled Filmmaker 176
- The Deathblow as a Stylistic Form) 183
- Edvard Munch, or How to Resist the Passage of Time 189
- The Watkins Way: History in Common 192
- The Besieged Citadel and the Martyr Figure 201
- TheAlter-Filmmaker 203
- 5 The Theory of Sparks: A History in Images, According to Jean-Luc Godard 207
- Taking Art Out of the Museum and Projecting It into History 212
- From Langlois to Godard: A Historical Passage Through Images 222
- From The Voices of Silence to Histoire(s) du cinema, or, The Fraternity of Metaphors 228
- The Historiographical Virtue of Histoire(s) du cinema 235
- Can Histoire(s) Redeem History? 247
- 6 Demodern Aesthetics: Filming the End of Communism 247
- A Demodern Collapse 248
- Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. Communism Put to the Test of the Zone 254
- Alexei Guerman's Khrustalyov, My Car! Communism at the Bottom of History's Closet 268
- Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark: Communism Sapped by Nostalgia 276
- Emir Kusturica's Underground: Into the Bowels of Communism 287
- A Few Images for "Those Who Are Lost" 299
- 7 America Unraveled: Master Fictions in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema 305
- Revealing Resurgences: Under the Whip of Catwoman 306
- End-of-the-World Films 312
- "Very Bad Films": Inside the Laboratory of Bad-Taste Films 322
- Tim Burton, America's Primitive 332
- American Cinema Put to the Test of 9/11 345.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780231156509
- 0231156502
- 9780231156516
- 0231156510
- OCLC:
- 693812345
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