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The politics and poetics of cinematic realism / Hermann Kappelhoff.
LIBRA PN1995.9.P6 K275 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kappelhoff, Hermann, author.
- Series:
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Political aspects.
- Motion pictures.
- Politics in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Hermann Kappelhoff is a professor in the Department for Film Studies at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He is the author of Matrix der Gefühle: Das Kino, das Melodrama und das Theater der Empfindsamkeit, a major study on the cinematic melodrama as a paradigm of artificial emotions. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Poetics and Politics 1
- Cinema, Art, and Politics 2
- The Idea of Aesthetics 5
- Utopia Cinema 9
- Cinema and Politics: A Historical Figuration 12
- Cinema and Community 15
- Poetic Experiments 17
- The Politics of Aesthetics 20
- The Politics of Cinematographic Realism 23
- 2 Before the War: The Avant-Garde, Film, and the Utopia of Art 26
- Eisenstein's Theory of the Moving Image 26
- A New Iconicity: New Objectivity and Film 39
- 3 After the War: Cinema as the Site of Historical Consciousness 58
- Kracauer: The Viewability of the Social 62
- Visconti: The Sensibility of Another Time 71
- 4 After '68: The Politics of Form 101
- Fassbinder: Germany in Autumn 102
- Brecht: The Social Gesture 110
- Making Social Relations Visible: Katzelmacher 120
- The Life of the Community: Beware of a Holy Whore 130
- 5 Beyond Classical Hollywood Cinema 147
- Shock Values 147
- Dirty Pictures, Brilliant Entertainment 148
- The Foundation of Aesthetic Pleasure: A Clockwork Orange 157
- Hollywood and Evil: The Exorcist 166
- 6 A New Sensitivity 187
- Almodóvar: Leaving Bernada Alba's House 189
- The Melodramatic Primal Scene: La flor de mi secreto 199
- Everything, Really Everything ...: Todo sobre mi madre 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231170727
- 0231170726
- 9780231170734
- 0231170734
- OCLC:
- 899138013
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