Realist cinema as world cinema : non-cinema, intermedial passages, total cinema / Lúcia Nagib.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagib, Lúcia, author.

Series:

Film culture in transition

Film Culture in Transition

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book presents the bold and original proposal to replace the general appellation of 'world cinema' with the more substantive concept of 'realist cinema'. Veering away from the usual focus on modes of reception and spectatorship, it locates instead cinematic realism in the way films are made. The volume is structured across three innovative categories of realist modes of production: 'non-cinema', or a cinema that aspires to be life itself; 'intermedial passages', or films that incorporate other artforms as a channel to historical and political reality; and 'total cinema', or films moved by a totalising impulse, be it towards the total artwork, total history or universalising landscapes. Though mostly devoted to recent productions, each part starts with the analysis of foundational classics, which have paved the way for future realist endeavours, proving that realism is timeless and inherent in cinema from its origin.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Non-cinema

1. The Death of (a) Cinema

2. Jafar Panahi’s Forbidden Tetralogy

3. Film as Death

4. The Blind Spot of History

Part II. Intermedial Passages

5. The Geidōmono Genre and Intermedial Acting in Ozu and Mizoguchi

6. Intermedial History-Telling

7. Passages to Reality

Part III. Towards Total Cinema

8. The Reality of Art

9. Historicising the Story through Film and Music

10. Total Cinema as Mode of Production

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9789048539215

9781003702283

OCLC:

1224279230

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access