Cinema & counter-history / Marcia Landy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landy, Marcia, 1931- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and history.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 288 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Cinema and counter history

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Despite claims about the end of history and the death of cinema, visual media continue to contribute to our understanding of history and history-making. In this book, Marcia Landy argues that rethinking history and memory must take into account shifting conceptions of visual and aural technologies. With the assistance of thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Cinema and Counter-History examines writings and films that challenge prevailing notions of history in order to explore the philosophic, aesthetic, and political stakes of activating the past. Marshaling evidence across European, African, and Asian cinema, Landy engages in a counter-historical project that calls into question the certainty of visual representations and unmoors notions of a history firmly anchored in truth. Book jacket.

Contents:

A crisis of the movement-image and counter-history

History growling at the door: horror and naturalism

Comedy, theatricality, and counter-history

Minoritarian cinematic forms as counter-history

Memory, the powers of the false, and becoming

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253016126

0253016126

9780253016164

0253016169

OCLC:

892213081