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Cinematic Vitalism : Film Theory and the Question of Life.
This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created a modernist, experimental, and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Film Theory in Media History Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: 'The sanguine, pulsating, enterprising modern life': Cinema and Vitalism; Taking Life for a Spin; Turn-of-the-century Vitalism and Philosophy of Life; Early Film Theory; Cinematic Vitalism; 1. Vitalism and Abstraction; Rhythm and Non-Organic Life from Hans Richter to Sergei Eisenstein; The Reinvention of Cinema in Abstract Film; A Universal Language; Bergson, Intuition, and Art; Setting Form into Motion: Scroll Paintings and Empathy; The Transition to Film; Back into Matter: from Abstraction to Montage; 2. New Worlds.
- Uexküll's Umwelt Theory at the MoviesForays; A Meditation on Mediated Dogs; The Agony of the Starfish: Uexküll's Chronophotography; Of Ticks and Humans; Against Anthropocentrism: Umwelt and Cinema; A Necessary Field of Action: Benjamin, Umwelt, and Play; Painlevé's Cinema of Bewilderment; 3. The Interweaving of World and Self; Transformations of Mood in Expressionist and Kammerspiel Film; The Mediation of a Dog's World; A Brief Aesthetic History of Stimmung; Turn-of-the-Century Stimmung and Cinema: Georg Simmel and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Balázs, Kammerspielfilm, and Expressionism.
- The Kammerspiel Film: Naturalist Plots and Progressive Aesthetics4. Open Bodies, Open Stories; Evolution, Narration, and Spectatorship in Post-war Film Theory; The Axolotl and Cinema: Bazin, Bergson, and Evolution; Cinema's Milieu; Life and the Temporalities of Film and Painting; Post-Apocalyptic Life: Kracauer's Theory of Film; Conclusion; Vital Media; Bibliography; Index of Films; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.