Mythopoetic cinema : on the ruins of European identity / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Europe--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Europe--In motion pictures.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"In Mythopoetic Cinema, Kriss Ravetto-Biagoli explores how contemporary European filmmakers treat mythopoetics as a critical practice that questions the constant need to provide new identities in a new Europe, and with it a new European cinema after the fall of the Soviet Union. Examining the work of Alexander Sokurov, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marina Abramović, and Jean-Luc Godard, she analyzes the ways in which these filmmakers engage and evaluate the recent reconceptualization of Europe's borders, mythic figures, and identity paradoxes, as well as how their work questions the ability of the moving image to challenge conventional ways of understanding history."

Contents:

Introduction

Floating on the borders of Europe : Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian ark

O Megalexandros : falling in and out of dreams

In Balkan : Marina Abramović and the politics of the suffering body

Notre musique : on the ruins of the divine

Epilogue : the politics of confrontation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.

ISBN:

9780231182188

023118218X

9780231182195

0231182198

OCLC:

965805875