Rites of realism : essays on corporeal cinema / edited by Ivone Margulies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Margulies, Ivone.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism in motion pictures.

Human body in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Semiotics.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays rethinking and reviving realism as a focus for film theory, particularly emphasizing the relation of the genre to issues of the body.

Contents:

Bodies too much / Ivone Margulies

Bazinian contingencies:

Death every afternoon / Andre Bazin

Screen of fantasy (Bazin and animals) / Serge Daney

History of image, image of history: subject and ontology in Bazin / Philip Rosen

Object of theory / Mary Ann Doane

Cultural indices:

No longer absolute: portraiture in American avant-garde and documentary films of the sixties / Paul Arthur

In search of the real city: cinematic representations of Beijing and the politics of vision / Xiaobing Tang

Private reality: Hara Kazuo's films / Abe Mark Nornes

Mike Leigh's modernist realism / Richard Porton

Why is this absurd picture here? Ethnology/heterology/Bunuel / James F. Lastra

Retracings:

Exemplary bodies: reenactment in Love in the city, Sons, and Close up / Ivone Margulies

Pasolini on Terra sacta: towards a theology of film / Noa Steimatsky

Ecstatic ethnography: Maya Deren and the filming of possession rituals / Catherine Russell

Filmic tableau vivant: Vermeer, intermediality, and the real / Brigitte Peucker

Dreyer's textual realism / James Schamus.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-332) and index.

ISBN:

0-8223-8461-2

9786613064493

1-283-06449-9

OCLC:

1143846216