On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular : Figurative Invention In Cinema / Nicole Brenez ; translated by Ted Fendt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brenez, Nicole, author.

Contributor:

Fendt, Ted, translator.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism in motion pictures.

Human body in motion pictures.

Gesture in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 230 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; a New York : Anthem Press, [2023].

Contents:

Part 1: Figurative Economies.

Why Must the Dead Be Killed?: Observations on John Woo

Capitalism: Jack Smith

"Unusual Approach to Bodies": Robert Bresson with Jean Eustache, Philippe Garrel, and Monte Hellman

Sketch/Skip/Excessive Synthesis: Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, Dario Argento's Suspiria, John McTiernan's Predator

Part 2: Adventures of the Classical Body in Modern Cinema.

S.M. Eisenstein, Bella Figura, and Formal Deflagration

Anti-Bodies: Instances of the Classical Body in the Work of Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Gus Van Sant

Short-Circuit: Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate

Part 3: New Abstractions in Figurative Invention.

The Contemporary Character

The Being According to the Image: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane

"Cause it sounds more French": On a Secondary Character in Maurice Pialat's Police

Theft: Robert Bresson's Pickpocket

Part 4: Summonses: Figures of the Actor.

The Actor as Affective Citizen

Lassie, Unfaithful to Dogs: Fred M. Wilcox's Lassie Come Home

"Die for Mr. Jensen": John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence

Part 5: Image Circuits.

Travolta Himself: Dance and the Circulation of Images - Fantasy, Phantasm, and Phantasmata

Thirst: Barbara Loden's Wanda

The Visual Study: The Forces of a Cinematic Form

The First Shot: Philippe Garrel's Liberť, la nuit

Anti-Oedipus: John Woo's Heroes Shed No Tears

Part 6: Theoretical Invention.

"As You Are": Representation and Figuration, Questions of Terminology in the Work of Barthes, Eisenstein, Benjamin, and Epstein

The Physics of Cinema: An Introduction to the Literary and Cinematic Oeuvre of Paul Sharits

In the Meantime: Kirk Tougas' The Politics of Perception

Epilogue: The Accident.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Translated from the French.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Brenez, Nicole On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:

ISBN:

9781839987816

1839987812

9781839987823

1839987820

Publisher Number:

40031927771

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