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Cinema's alchemist : the films of Péter Forgács /

Péter Forgács, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. Cinema's Alchemist offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with whi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nichols, Bill, 1942-, Renov, Michael, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Colección:Visible evidence ; v. 25.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bill Nichols
  • Setting the Scene. Péter Forgács: an interview / Scott MacDonald
  • The memory of loss: Péter Forgács' Saga of family life and social hell / Péter Forgacs and Bill Nichols, in dialogue
  • The Holocaust Films. Toward a new historiography: the aesthetics of temporality / Ernst van Alphen
  • Ordinary film: The maelstrom / Michael S. Roth
  • Historical discourses of the unimaginable: The maelstrom / Michael Renov
  • Waiting, hoping, among the Ruins of All the Rest / Kaja Silverman
  • The trace: framing the presence of the past in Free fall / Malin Wahlberg
  • Other films/other contexts. How to make history perceptible: The Bartos family and the private Hungary series / Roger Odin
  • Found images as witness to Central European history: a Bibø reader and Miss Universe 1929 / Catherine Portuges
  • Reenvisioning the documentary fact: on saying and showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and bourgeois dictionaries / Tyrus Miller
  • The world rewound: Wittgenstein Tractatus / Whitney Davis
  • Taking the part for the whole: some thoughts inspired by the film music of Tibor Szemzø / Tamøs Korønyi
  • Analytical spaces: the installations of Péter Forgács / Laszlo F. Føldønyi
  • Reorchestrating history: transforming The Danube exodus into a database documentary / Marsha Kinder.