Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry Andreea Marinescu, Ignacio Lopez-Vicuna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marinescu, Andreea.

Contributor:

López-Vicuña, Ignacio, editor.

Marinescu, Andreea, editor.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series.

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chile.

Ruiz, Raúl, 1941-2011--Criticism and interpretation.

Ruiz, Raúl.

Ruiz, Raúl, 1941-2011.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020

Place of Publication:

Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Investigates the work of global filmmaker Raul Ruiz. Most widely known for his filmic productions, Raul Ruiz (1941-2011) was a highly prolific, erudite, and innovative artist, whose work is located at the intersection of diverse locations, languages, and aesthetic traditions. Ruiz's eclectic body of work includes over one hundred films (among them features, shorts, television serials, and videos), books on the theory of cinema, genre-defying fiction books, plays, a radio show, and a multimedia installation. Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry posits the unity of Ruiz's body of work and investigates the similarities between his very diverse artistic productions. Ruiz's own concept of ""cinema of inquiry"" provides the lens through which his films and poetics are examined.Ruiz's relevance to cinema and the growing interest in his work are due to his legacy as a global filmmaker. Viewers, filmmakers, and film scholars continue to return to his works because his films consistently pose the question of what cinema can be, especially at a time when cinema is increasingly seen as displaced by television and new media. Ruiz expanded the domain of cinema itself, incessantly probing the interstices between cinema and other arts. Editors Ignacio Lopez-Vicuna and Andreea Marinescu, with six other scholars, explore different aspects of Ruiz's work, with special attention paid to the transnational aspects of Ruiz's films, critical regionalism, and political and aesthetic interventions. Raul Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry includes close readings of important yet understudied films, as well as two extensive previously unpublished interviews with Ruiz. Students and scholars of film and media studies will find great value in this collection.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Editors' Note

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Essays

Childhood and Play in the Films of Raúl Ruiz

Television, Tractations, and Folklore: Raúl Ruiz as Transmedia Filmmaker

Raúl Ruiz, Speculative Bricoleur: Pedagogical and Televisual Ruptures

Inter-auteurial Itineraries and the Rekindling of Transnational Art Cinema: Raúl Ruiz and Orson Welles

Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt

Ghosts with Open Wounds: Benjamin's Photographic Unconscious and Raúl Ruiz's Spectral Turn

Raúl Ruiz's "Lost" Chilean Film: Memory and Multiplicity in Palomita blanca (1973)

Raúl Ruiz's Surrealist Documentary of Return: Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques (1983) and Cofralandes (2002)

Interviews

Dialogue with Raúl Ruiz, 1970, with Enrique Lihn and Federico Schopf

An Interrupted Dialogue, 1989, with Catherine L. Benamou

Conversation with Raúl Ruiz, 2008, with Andreea Marinescu

List of Contributors

Select Filmography

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814341070

0814341071

OCLC:

1014364951