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The utopia of film : cinema and its futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik / Christopher Pavsek.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pavsek, Christopher, 1964-
- Series:
- Film and culture.
- Film and culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-2022--Criticism and interpretation.
- Godard, Jean-Luc.
- Kluge, Alexander, 1932-2026--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kluge, Alexander.
- Tahimik, Kidlat--Criticism and interpretation.
- Tahimik, Kidlat.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (509 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a "redeemed world." Situating the films of Godard, Tahimik, and Kluge within debates over social revolution, utopian ideals, and the unrealized potential of utopian thought and action, Christopher Pavsek showcases the strengths, weaknesses, and undeniable impact of their utopian visions on film's political evolution. He discusses Godard's Alphaville (1965) against Germany Year 90 Nine-Zero (1991) and JLG/JLG: Self-portrait in December (1994), and he conducts the first scholarly reading of Film Socialisme (2010). He considers Tahimik's virtually unknown masterpiece, I Am Furious Yellow (1981-1991), along with Perfumed Nightmare (1977) and Turumba (1983); and he constructs a dialogue between Kluge's Brutality in Stone (1961) and Yesterday Girl (1965) and his later The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985) and Fruits of Trust (2009).
- Contents:
- Introduction: the idea of cinema
- What has come to pass for cinema: from early to late Godard
- Kidlat Tahimik's "third world projector"
- The actuality of cinema: Alexander Kluge
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231530811
- 0231530811
- OCLC:
- 829461944
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