Cinema's alchemist : the films of Péter Forgács / Bill Nichols and Michael Renov, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nichols, Bill, 1942-

Renov, Michael, 1950-

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 25.

Visible evidence ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgács, Péter--Criticism and interpretation.

Forgács, Péter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Péter Forgács, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930's to the 1960's that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with off screen historical events. Cinema's Alchemist offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with which Forgács reshapes such film footage, originally intended for private and personal viewing, into extraordinary films dedicated to remembering the past in ways that matter for our future. Contributors: Whitney Davis, U of California, Berkeley; László F. Földényi, U of Theatre, Film and Television, Budapest;

Contents:

Introduction / Bill Nichols

Setting the Scene. Péter Forgács: an interview / Scott MacDonald

The memory of loss: Péter Forgács' Saga of family life and social hell / Péter Forgacs and Bill Nichols, in dialogue

The Holocaust Films. Toward a new historiography: the aesthetics of temporality / Ernst van Alphen

Ordinary film: The maelstrom / Michael S. Roth

Historical discourses of the unimaginable: The maelstrom / Michael Renov

Waiting, hoping, among the Ruins of All the Rest / Kaja Silverman

The trace: framing the presence of the past in Free fall / Malin Wahlberg

Other films/other contexts. How to make history perceptible: The Bartos family and the private Hungary series / Roger Odin

Found images as witness to Central European history: a Bibø reader and Miss Universe 1929 / Catherine Portuges

Reenvisioning the documentary fact: on saying and showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and bourgeois dictionaries / Tyrus Miller

The world rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus / Whitney Davis

Taking the part for the whole: some thoughts inspired by the film music of Tibor Szemzø / Tamøs Korønyi

Analytical spaces: the installations of Péter Forgács / Laszlo F. Føldønyi

Reorchestrating history: transforming The Danube exodus into a database documentary / Marsha Kinder.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781452945972

1452945977

9780816678303

0816678308

OCLC:

777565090