Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema Olivia Landry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landry, Olivia, author.

Series:

New directions in national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Movement (Acting).

Motion pictures.

Germany--Berlin.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Through a study of the contemporary German film movement, the Berlin School, Olivia Landry examines how narrative film has responded to our highly digitalized and mediatized age, not with a focus on stasis and realism, but by turning back to movement, spectacle, and performance. She argues that a preoccupation with presence, liveness, and affect--all of which are viewed as critical components of live performance--can be found in many of the films of the Berlin School. Challenging the perception that the Berlin School is a sheer adherent of "slow cinema," Landry closely analyzes the use of movement, dynamism, presence, and speed in a broad selection of films to show how filmmakers--such as Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, Thomas Arslan, and Christoph Hochhäusler--invoke the pulse of the kinesthetic and the tangibly affective. Her analysis draws on an array of film theories from early materialism to body theories, phenomenology, and contemporary affect theories. Arguing that these theories readily and energetically forge a path from film to performance, Landry traces a trajectory between the two through which live experience, presence, spectacle, intersubjectivity, and the body in motion emerge and powerfully intersect. Ultimately, Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema expands the methodological and disciplinary boundaries of film studies by offering new ways of articulating and understanding movement in cinema"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Media, death, and liveness

Theatricality bleeds, the presence of dance

Between movement and affect : the body's shared point of sense

Accelerating performance : from car travel to car crash

Nina Hoss's performance of the fugitive body; or, what to do with movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253038050

0253038057

9780253038043

0253038049

OCLC:

1099527861