After authority : global art cinema and political transition / Kalling Heck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heck, Kalling, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Motion pictures.

Totalitarianism and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Summary:

After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States, this book contends that the aesthetic tradition of ambiguity in art cinema can be traced to post-authoritarian conditions and that it is in the context of a transition away from authoritarianism where art cinema aesthetics become legible. Art cinema, then, can be seen as a mode of cinematic practice that is at its core political, as its constitutive ambiguity finds its roots in the rejection of centralized and hierarchical configurations of authority. Ultimately, After Authority proposes a history of art cinema predicated on the potentials, possibilities, and politics of ambiguity.

Contents:

Authority year zero : on Germany year zero

The image that waits : on Satantango

The end of authority, the end of democracy : on woman on the beach

Force, hope, and death : on medium cool

Coda : political modernism and the possibility for action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-0702-3

OCLC:

1138875638