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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagib, Lúcia, 1956- author.

Series:

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

301 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]

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:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Non-cinema

1. The Death of (a) Cinema

The State of Things

2. Jafar Panahi's Forbidden Tetralogy

This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain, Taxi Tehran, Three Faces

3. Film as Death

The Act of Killing

4. The Blind Spot of History

Colonialism in Tabu

pt. II Intermedial Passages

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

6. Intermedial History-Telling

Mysteries of Lisbon

7. Passages to Reality

The Case of Brazilian Cinema

pt. III Towards Total Cinema

8. The Reality of Art

Ossessione

9. Historicising the Story through Film and Music

An Intermedial Reading of Heimat

10. Total Cinema as Mode of Production.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9462987513

9789462987517

OCLC:

1182852615