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Memory and imagination in film : Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch, Van Sant / Patrizia Lombardo, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U6 L59 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lombardo, Patrizia, author.
Series:
Language, discourse, society
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Motion pictures--United States--History.
Motion pictures.
Aesthetics.
Motion pictures--Production and direction.
United States.
History.
Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States.
Motion pictures--United States--Aesthetics.
Imagination in motion pictures.
Memory in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
ix, 244 pages : illustratiions ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Summary:
"Lombardo expands upon the intuitions of Baudelaire, proposing a new understanding of cinephilia as the interplay of the memory and the imagination of both filmmakers and spectators. Works by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant are presented as imaginative uses of the history of cinema, as well as the histories of painting, music, literature and photography. Quotations, allusions, and more complex stylistic devices combine to become conscious or unconscious re-elaborations of works from the past and the present. The question of spectators' participation is discussed at length, alongside detailed analysis that aims to disentangle the various elements within specific film sequences"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part I The Wonder of Cinema: Scorsese
1 Living in Manhattan in the 19th Century 15
2 Memory and Astonishment in Shutter Island 61
3 Style and Signature in Film 80
4 Bazin, Bresson and Scorsese: Performatives in Film 94
Intermezzo
5 Jim Jarmusch's Philosophy of Composition 121
Part II Experimenting with Time and Space: Van Sant and Lynch
6 Minimalist Aesthetics in Gerry 141
7 Space and Long Takes in Paranoid Park 155
8 Lives on Film: Gus Van Sant's Milk 169
9 David Lynch: Painting in Film 182.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780230241718
0230241719
OCLC:
873725696

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