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Thinking revolution through film : on audiovisual stagings of political change / Hanno Berger ; translated by Alex H. Bush.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Hanno, author.
- Series:
- Cinepoetics ; Volume 10.
- Cinepoetics ; Volume 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutions in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]
- Summary:
- This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Theory of Revolution: Prolegomena
- 3 The “Machine Which Thinks Temporally”
- 4 NAPOLÉON: The Sublime Conceptualization of Revolution
- 5 REDS: The Russian Revolution in Hollywood
- 6 JOHN ADAMS: Before the Birth Comes the Revolution
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Name Index
- Film Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-075470-3
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